configuration

added necessary gems
added README.md to reflect the current intended state of the API and the revised setup process
added memcached and imagemagick recipes to Chef solo to avoid extra vagrant setup steps
set up memcached with the dalli gem
added the dot_env gem to the project to load passwords/keys/etc
set up database configuration
configured aws-sdk gem for access to s3 buckets
switched from mysql to postgres, gems chef, vagrant
added memcached and the dalli gem
added travis and code metric gems (ported jeremiah's work from the old project)
added rspec and generated basic rspec setup files