INSTALL

# Setup instructions

## On Ubuntu (recommended)

### install python dev
sudo apt-get install python-dev

### install tornado, follow instructions on:
http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation#download

### install the python setup tools
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

### upgrade setuptools
sudo easy_install -U setuptools

### install required python modules
sudo easy_install Mako
sudo easy_install MongoKit
sudo easy_install python-dateutil
sudo easy_install pytz

### install whirlwind
download a copy of whirlwind from https://github.com/trendrr/whirlwind/ or alternately clone a copy of the git repo
 
### untar/unzip archive
tar -xzf trendrr-whirlwind-5c17ff8.tar.gz

### change to whirlwind directory
cd whirlwind

### run the setup script
sudo python setup.py install

### to create a whirlwind app
whirlwind-admin.py --create-application myapp

### fill in env specific settings in settings file [config/settings.py]
generate a cookie secret (copy output to config/settings.py)
whirlwind-admin.py --gcs

### to start app
python main.py