backend application

Setting up development environment

1. Install Maven
2. Install Node.js
3. Install Ruby
4. Install/configure MySQL and create a database called "pace".
5. Open a Maven config file located in {YOUR_HOME_DIRECTORY}/.m2/settings.xml.
6. Add a profile to the profiles section and configure access to MySQL, it should look like this:

7. Create a root folder for the project, Here we use "pace" as the root folder: mkdir pace cd pace

8. Checkout the backend project: git clone http://dev-server/trunk/pace-project

9. Checkout the frontend project: git clone http://dev-server/trunk/pace-frontend

10. The folder structure should look like this: |--pace |-----pace-project |-----pace-frontend

11. Build the backend project: cd pace-project mvn clean install -P dev

12. Launch the backend app: cd pace-backend mvn tomcat7:run-war-only

13. Check the Tomcat log file to see if there was any error during startup. The log is located in /pace-project/pace-backend/target/tomcat/logs/pace-backend.log