So, you want to do some contribution for iPeer project. Just follow the following steps to make your own local development environment.

=== For External Developers and Contributers ===
1. Get a !GitHub Account from https://github.com. 
2. Install Git on your local computer.
 * Mac: http://help.github.com/mac-set-up-git/
 * Linux: http://help.github.com/linux-set-up-git/
 * Windows: http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/
3. Fork the iPeer project (https://github.com/ubc/iPeer) into your account and  clone the code from your forked repo: http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/ 
4. Additional steps to set up
 * Pull the Guard plugin.
{{{
cd ipeer
git submodule init
git submodule update
}}}
5. Setup [wiki:CodingStandard coding standard]
6. Starting developing~
7. Once you finished, you can issue a pull request so that we can merge your changes to the iPeer repo. http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/

=== For Internal Developers and Contributers ===
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 for External Developers and Contribuers above
2. Follow the steps in https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys to generate a ssh key for your github account
3. Clone the code
{{{
git clone git@github.com:ubc/iPeer.git
}}}
4. Additional steps to set up. Pull the Guard plugin.
{{{
cd ipeer
git checkout cakephp1.3
git submodule init
git submodule update
}}}
5. (XAMPP) go to xampp/htdocs/app/plugins/guard/config, open guard.php. You will have to do something similar if you are using any other web server.
* Make the following changes
{{{
//$config['Guard.AuthModule.Name'] = 'Shibboleth';    // Using Shibboleth module
$config['Guard.AuthModule.Name'] = 'Default';     // Using default (build-in) module
}}}
* Copy guard.php to xampp/htdocs/app/config

See, that's not very hard.


== Debugging ==
=== For version 2.x ===
To turn on debug mode, change the line in file app/config/core.php from:
{{{
define('DEBUG', 0);
}}}
to
{{{
define('DEBUG', 2);
}}}

=== For version 3.x ===
To turn on debug mode, change the line in file app/config/core.php from:
{{{
Configure::write('debug', 0);
}}}
to
{{{
Configure::write('debug', 2);
}}}