A technical platform for web application development

baseline source code is stored in github, so you need to setup that first

Download and install git from https://git-scm.com/downloads

You will also need to add /usr/local/git/bin to your path. On mac the default git is in /usr/bin/ so make sure you that your path contains /usr/local/git/bin before /user/bin.

Follow these instructions: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git#set-up-git

Install Play Framework 2 https://www.playframework.com

Try ab on the command line

If you an error you might have to apply the solution in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13643452/libssl-and-libcrypto-causing-dyld-library-not-loaded-usr-lib-libpq-5-dylib

if you get a connection error from ab while testing you might need to get the new version of ab :

1. install pcre lib as in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10663180/http-install-error-in-libpcre
2. install new version of ab as in https://superuser.com/questions/323840/apache-bench-test-erroron-os-x-apr-socket-recv-connection-reset-by-peer-54