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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
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+### Checking for docker, docker-compose and git as requirements
+### Show a warning when requirements are not installed
+which docker || echo "Please install docker on your system" & exit 1
+which docker-compose || echo "Please install docker-compose on your system" & exit 1
+which git || echo "Please install git on your system" & exit 1
+
+### Cloning repositories
+### Docker specifics
+git clone https://github.com/nxt-engineering/hitobito-docker.git hitobito
+### Hitobito Core Project
+git clone https://github.com/hitobito/hitobito.git hitobito/hitobito
+### Hitobito Wagon project(s)
+git clone https://github.com/hitobito/hitobito_generic.git hitobito/hitobito_generic
+
+### Running the docker containers
+cd hitobito
+docker-compose up app
+
+### Output App URI(s)
+echo "http://$(docker-compose port app 3000)"
+echo "http://$(docker-compose port mail 1080)"
+
+### Setting up first user account
+echo 'p=Person.first; p.update(password: "password"); "You can now login as #{p.email} with the password \"password\""' | docker-compose run --rm -T app rails c
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