From dec9b015279df235de9befa557a5972600e0deba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bo-Chun Louis Chen <louistw@uab.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 12:16:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added more detail steps in Installation section

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 README.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f389c4e..de1cd7a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,6 +19,18 @@ This is a project implementing the blog post by Mbithe Nzomo.
 
 ### Installation
 
+Download the project
+```shell
+$ git clone git@gitlab.rc.uab.edu:louistw/get_start_flask.git # or your own fork
+$ cd get_start_flask
+```
+
+Create and activate your virtualenv
+```shell
+$ virtualenv venv
+$ source venv/bin/activate
+```
+
 Install packages needed via pip
 ```shell
 $ pip install -r requirement.txt
@@ -44,6 +56,17 @@ $ flask db upgrade
 ```
 In case you are using SQLite, refer to the third problem in [Known problem](#known-problems).
 
+Create admin account
+```python
+$ flask shell
+from app.models import Employee
+from app import db
+#Remember to replace ADMIN_EMAIL, ADMIN_USERNAME, ADMIN_PASSWORD with correct value
+admin = Employee(email="ADMIN_EMAIL",username="ADMIN_USERNAME",password="ADMIN_PASSWORD",is_admin=True)
+db.session.add(admin)
+db.session.commit()
+```
+
 Finally, you can run your app
 ```shell
 $ flask run
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