Foundation

Installing Dependencies

The first dependency that we need to install is Elixir. Find your distribution and follow the instructions on this site
The second thing that we need to ensure that we have is Phoenix. Here are the instructions for that Phoenix Install Instructions Note: You don't need to install Erlang as you will have already done that but make sure you have all other dependencies installed.
Final note: Make sure you have Node.js installed as our project relies on that.

This project makes use of environment variables so in order for the project to run we need to set these up. These variables are located in config/dev.exs The values of the database variables are available over Slack.
Line 10: http: [port: System.get_env("WEB_PORT")] this denotes which port you want your app to use when you fire it up in the browser.
Line 42: username: System.get_env("FOUNDATION_DATABASE_USER") this denotes your database username.
Line 43: password: System.get_env("FOUNDATION_DATABASE_PASSWORD") this denotes your database password.
Line 45: port: System.get_env("FOUNDATION_DATABASE_URL") this denotes where the database is at.(Our case we are using amazon.)
Line 47: port: System.get_env("FOUNDATION_DATABASE_PORT") this denotes what port your database is running at.
In order to run the app these environment variables need to be defined in the .bashrc

To start your Phoenix app: