add symphony dotenv to prerequisites list

[nominatim.git] / docs / develop / Development-Environment.md

diff --git a/docs/develop/Development-Environment.md b/docs/develop/Development-Environment.md
index 2ebaaedc4057bd6fcfae9f6afaf222f9d970d0aa..b5e5ceba6d40068099a58eed359209c86e28ddee 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/develop/Development-Environment.md
+++ b/docs/develop/Development-Environment.md
@@ -25,12 +25,10 @@ following packages should get you started:
 
 ## Prerequisites for testing and documentation
 
-The Nominatim tests suite consists of behavioural tests (using behave) and
+The Nominatim test suite consists of behavioural tests (using behave) and
 unit tests (using PHPUnit). It has the following additional requirements:
 
-* [behave test framework](https://github.com/behave/behave) >= 1.2.5
-* [nose](https://nose.readthedocs.org)
-* [pytidylib](http://countergram.com/open-source/pytidylib)
+* [behave test framework](https://behave.readthedocs.io) >= 1.2.5
 * [phpunit](https://phpunit.de) >= 7.3
 * [PHP CodeSniffer](https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer)
 
@@ -50,7 +48,7 @@ To install all necessary packages run:
 sudo apt install php-cgi phpunit php-codesniffer \
                  python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-dev
 
-pip3 install --user behave nose mkdocs
+pip3 install --user behave mkdocs
 ```
 
 The `mkdocs` executable will be located in `.local/bin`. You may have to add
@@ -86,7 +84,7 @@ All tests are located in the `\test` directory.
 Some of the behavioural test expect a test database to be present. You need at
 least 2GB RAM and 10GB disk space to create the database.
 
-First create a separate directory for the test DB and Fetch the test planet
+First create a separate directory for the test DB and fetch the test planet
 data and the Tiger data for South Dakota:
 
 ```
@@ -103,13 +101,20 @@ cmake $USERNAME/Nominatim
 make
 ```
 
-Copy the test settings:
+Create a minimal test settings file:
 
 ```
-cp $USERNAME/Nominatim/test/testdb/local.php settings/
+tee .env << EOF
+NOMINATIM_DATABASE_DSN="pgsql:dbname=test_api_nominatim"
+NOMINATIM_USE_US_TIGER_DATA=yes
+NOMINATIM_TIGER_DATA_PATH=tiger
+NOMINATIM_WIKIPEDIA_DATA_PATH=$USERNAME/Nominatim/test/testdb
+EOF
 ```
 
 Inspect the file to check that all settings are correct for your local setup.
+In particular, the wikipedia path should point to the test directory in your
+Nominatim source directory.
 
 Now you can import the test database: