Caleido, a Research Intelligence platform

This is a work-in-progress, research project from Erasmus University Library Rotterdam.

Setting up Caleido

• Install Python3.4 or newer

• Install PostgreSQL 9.5 or newer

• Clone the repository, create a virtualenv, install dependencies:

  git clone https://github.com/jascoul/caleido.git
  cd caleido
  virtualenv --python=python3 .
  source bin/activate
  pip install -e .

• Create a PostgreSQL database with the same user/password as the caleido.ini file (Have a look at the psql commands in the travis.yaml file)

• Initialize the database with the initialize_db script:

  initialize_db caleido.ini

Tests

• Install dependencies:

  pip install tox pytest webtest

• Run the unittests:

  pytest tests

Starting the API server

• Start the development webserver:

  pserve caleido.ini

• Visit the API browser at http://localhost:6543/api/swagger.html