rasa-workshop

Rasa workshop for Davidson meetup

NLP WORKSHOP SETUP

System requirements:

Must have python 3.6 or 3.7 version.

Steps:
1. Check if your Python environment is already configured:

$ python3 --version  
$ pip3 --version

2. Fetch the relevant packages and install virtualenv using pip or conda

Linux:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install python3-dev python3-pip

Windows:

Make sure the Microsoft VC++ Compiler is installed, so python can compile any dependencies. You can get the compiler from Visual Studio. Download the installer and select VC++ Build tools in the list.

Install Python 3 (64-bit version) for Windows.

C:\> pip3 install -U pip

Mac OS

Install the Homebrew package manager if you haven’t already.
Once you’re done, you can install Python3.

$ brew update
$ brew install python

3. Create a virtual environment

Using Conda

conda create --name workshop

You can replace "workshop" with whatever name you like.
When conda asks proceed [y/n] - select y
Now activate your environment.

conda activate workshop

Using virstualEnv

Create a new virtual environment by choosing a Python interpreter and making a ./venv directory to hold it:

On Linux/mac

$ python3 -m venv ./venv

Activate the virtual environment

$ source ./venv/bin/activate

On Windows

C:\> python3 -m venv ./venv

Activate the virtual environment

C:\> .\venv\Scripts\activate

4. Install RASA

Update your pip/conda

$ pip install -U pip

Install Rasa

pip install rasa