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Install location for earthdata-search on OS X

People have had issues installing EDSC in /usr/local... a workaround was to install it within /Users.

Docker file sharing for OS X

After configuring config/database.yml and config/application.yml and executing ./bin/setup after a lot of std output I get the following...

== Preparing database (development and test environments) == $ docker-compose run web bundle exec rake db:setup -> Creating network "earthdata-search_default" with the default driver -> Pulling db (postgres:)... -> latest: Pulling from library/postgres Creating earthdata-search_db_1 ... error -> -> ERROR: for earthdata-search_db_1 Cannot start service db: b'Mounts denied: \r\nThe path /usr/local/earthdata-search/tmp/db\r\nis not shared from OS X and is not known to Docker.\r\nYou can configure shared paths from Docker -> Preferences... -> File Sharing.\r\nSee https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/osxfs/#namespaces for more info.\r\n.' -> ERROR: for db Cannot start service db: b'Mounts denied: \r\nThe path /usr/local/earthdata-search/tmp/db\r\nis not shared from OS X and is not known to Docker.\r\nYou can configure shared paths from Docker -> Preferences... -> File Sharing.\r\nSee https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/osxfs/#Namespace for more info.\r\n.' -> Encountered errors while bringing up the project. Exiting: Error executing command docker-compose run web bundle exec rake db:setup

By default, Docker for Mac shares directories falling under /Users, /Volumes, /private and /tmp anything else needs to be explicitly configured within the Docker daemon. More information can be found here