1. Fork this repo

   • Click Fork in the top-right of the page - this will create a copy of this repo in your own GitHub account

2. Clone (download) the repo

   • Go to your newly-created fork of the repo (on GitHub).
   • Click Clone or download (the green button on the right).
   • Make sure the page says Clone with SSH (rather than Clone with HTTPS).
   • Open your git client (e.g. GitKraken) and use this link to clone the repo.
     Your trainer will able to help you with this.

3. "Cloning the repo" will create a folder on your computer with the files from this repo.
   Open this folder in VSCode.

4. Open a command-prompt in this same folder.
   Your trainer can show you how to do this, if you need any help.

5. Make sure you've got PostgreSQL installed. You'll notice that your application.properties file contains POSTGRES config variables. As well as installing Postgres we need to make sure we have a user set up to match that config, with the right permissions to create the database when the app runs. All instructions for this step are in the Setting up Postgres section below.

6. Run ./gradlew run in the console.

7. You should now be able to find your code running at: http://localhost:8080/books

Before you run the app you will need to make sure you've got Postgres installed and a database set up by following the instructions below.

1. Download and install the PostgreSQL server software if you haven't already.

Open the Windows Start menu and search for "pgAdmin". When you start "pgAdmin" for the first time, you'll be asked to set a password for your superuser.

Run Postgres.app

Ubuntu users try sudo systemctl enable postgresql.service

1. Inside your PostgreSQL <version number> server, right-click on Login/Group Roles and create a new Login/Group Role with the name bookish (in the General tab), the password bookish (in the Definition tab) and the ability to log in and create databases (in the Privileges tab).

2. Click Save to create the user.

1. Inside your PostgreSQL server, right-click on Databases and create a new Database with the name bookish and the owner bookish (both in the General tab).

2. Click Save to create the database.