Once you are ready, create a new folder to hold this and any other git repositories. As an example, let's pretend you've chose C:\git, and made that folder writable by your user account.
At this point you should be in C:\git\metamaps_gen002, or whatever equivalent directory you've chosen. The next step is to set up your database configuration. From the metamaps_gen002 directory, run
This command will open a Windows Explorer window of the "config" directory of Metamaps. Copy database.yml.default, and rename the copy to database.yml. Edit the file and set the password to be whatever you set up with postgres earlier. Once you're done, then move back into the command prompt. The next few commands will fail unless database.yml is correctly configured and Postgres is running.
And you're set up! At this point, you should be able to run the server at any time with only one command; you don't need to repeat any of the previous steps again. The command to run the server is:
