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fab-canvas is an first attempt at almost hands-free automatic installation of canvas in the cloud.

• Canvas is open source LMS from https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms
• Fabric is awesome http://fabfile.org

##prepare a virtual environment

install Xcode on mac sudo easy_install pip Mac Lion already has easy_install. sudo apt-get install python-setuptools for linux
` sudo pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper

mkdir ~/domains
` ####append this to ~/.profile in mac or ~/.bashrc in linux

`export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/domains

source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

export PIP_VIRTUALENV_BASE=$WORKON_HOME
`

##github setup

`macbook:~ nilesh$ workon workhere
(workhere)macbook:~ nilesh$ cd ~/domains/workhere/
(workhere)macbook:workhere nilesh$ git config --global user.name "Nilesh"
(workhere)macbook:workhere nilesh$ git config --global user.email [email protected]
(workhere)macbook:workhere nilesh$ mkdir fab-canvas
(workhere)macbook:workhere nilesh$ cd fab-canvas
(workhere)macbook:fab-canvas nilesh$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/nilesh/domains/workhere/fab-canvas/.git/
(workhere)macbook:fab-canvas nilesh$ touch README
(workhere)macbook:fab-canvas nilesh$ git add README
(workhere)macbook:fab-canvas nilesh$ git commit -m 'first commit'
[master (root-commit) ba5c664] first commit
0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 README
(workhere)macbook:fab-canvas nilesh$ git remote add origin [email protected]:lvnilesh/fab-canvas.git
(workhere)macbook:fab-canvas nilesh$ git push -u origin master
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 207 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To [email protected]:lvnilesh/fab-canvas.git

• [new branch] master -> master
  Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.
  (workhere)macbook:fab-canvas nilesh$
  (workhere)macbook:fab-canvas nilesh$ cd ..
  (workhere)macbook:workhere nilesh$ git clone [email protected]:lvnilesh/fab-canvas.wiki.git
  Cloning into fab-canvas.wiki...
  remote: Counting objects: 3, done.
  remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
  Receiving objects: 100% (3/3), done.
  (workhere)macbook:workhere nilesh$ pwd
  /Users/nilesh/domains/workhere
  (workhere)macbook:workhere nilesh$ ls -l
  drwxr-xr-x 19 nilesh staff 646 Sep 3 20:57 bin
  drwxr-xr-x 3 nilesh staff 102 Sep 3 20:55 build
  drwxr-xr-x 4 nilesh staff 136 Sep 4 16:27 fab-canvas
  drwxr-xr-x 4 nilesh staff 136 Sep 4 16:40 fab-canvas.wiki
  drwxr-xr-x 3 nilesh staff 102 Sep 3 20:53 include
  drwxr-xr-x 3 nilesh staff 102 Sep 3 20:53 lib
  `