Command Line Interface¶

This document outlines the functionality of the deepforge command line interface (provided after installing deepforge with npm install -g deepforge).

Installation Configuration
Starting DeepForge or Components
Installing and Upgrading Torch
Update or Uninstall DeepForge
Managing Extensions

Installation Configuration¶

Installation configuration including the installation location of Torch7 and data storage locations. These can be edited using the deepforge config command as shown in the following examples:

Printing all the configuration settings:

deepforge config

Printing the value of a configuration setting:

deepforge config torch.dir

Setting a configuration option, such as torch.dir can be done with:

deepforge config torch.dir /some/new/directory

For more information about the configuration settings, check out the configuration page.

Starting DeepForge Components¶

DeepForge components, such as the server or the workers, can be started with the deepforge start command. By default, this command will start all the necessary components to run including the server, a mongo database (if applicable) and a worker.

The server can be started by itself using

deepforge start --server

The worker can be started by itself using

deepforge start --worker http://154.95.87.1:7543

where http://154.95.87.1:7543 is the url of the deepforge server.

Installing and Upgrading Torch7¶

Torch7 is lazily installed when starting a worker (if torch isn’t already installed) with the rnn package. This installation can be manually updated as described in the update and installation section.

Update/Uninstall DeepForge¶

DeepForge can be updated or uninstalled using

deepforge update

The torch installation can be updated using

deepforge update --torch

DeepForge can be uninstalled using deepforge uninstall

Managing Extensions¶

DeepForge extensions can be installed and removed using the deepforge extensions subcommand. Extensions can be added, removed and listed as shown below

deepforge extensions add https://github.com/example/some-extension
deepforge extensions remove some-extension
deepforge extensions list