Steps

1. install Windows Subsystem for Linux
2. install Ubuntu via Windows store
3. configure your user on Ubuntu
4. install RVM in your Ubuntu instance
   • See rvm for Ubuntu repo for instructions
5. install PostgreSQL on Windows
6. install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu

   • See Ubuntu install instructions from Postgres website

     • the fastest way to do so is to copy the script that the install instructions provides and run the below in Ubuntu:

     echo '<PASTE-SCRIPT-HERE>' >> psql-install.sh
     bash psql-install.sh
     

     • if you've never played with a Unix terminal before, what this is doing is appending whatever text is in the single quotation marks into a new psql-install.sh file
     • then we run the .sh script file using bash

   • pg gem fails to install if it's not installed, but we'll be building our local db on Windows

7. start PostgreSQL service on Windows if it hasn't been started
8. ensure you can use psql in your Windows terminal
9. clone the code(both or just the backend)
10. run gem install bundler in Ubuntu
11. run bundle install while your current working directory is the SCL backend directory in Ubuntu
12. start the Rails server from Ubuntu using rails s

Checklist

• [ ] install WSL 2
• [ ] install Ubuntu via Windows store
• [ ] configure your user on Ubuntu
• [ ] install RVM in your ubuntu instance
• [ ] install PostgreSQL on Windows