MyDiary

MyDiary is an online journal where users can pen down their thoughts and feelings.

Getting Started

Clone

• https://github.com/4dbyron/MyDiary.git
  or
• git@github.com:4dbyron/MyDiary.git
  or
  Open live Preview

Prerequisites

To clone, you can click on the clone or download button on the left of this page.
This option is only preferred when you don't have git installed on your system.

In case you already have git installed e.g through apt-get install git on Linux(Debian Derivatives).

Cloning can be done by:

`git clone https://github.com/4dbyron/MyDiary.git`

or git clone git@github.com:4dbyron/MyDiary.git

Installing

MyDiary has UI and API sections. Depending on the part you are interested in, you can follow its respective instructions.

1. The User Interface (UI)

• To render the User interface, navigate to MyDiary directory(Appears where we clones our repo)
• while in MyDiary you will see the UI directory. navigate to it.
• launch index.html with a your favourite browser

e.g
cd MyDiary/UI
sensible-browser index.html

2. The Application Programmable Interface

#####once the repository has been cloned execute:

• `virtualenv venv
• source venv/bin/activate
• pip install -r MyDiary/requirements.txt

after the requirements have been installed,

• Navigate to the MyDiary folder/directory with cd MyDiary command

• You will be prompted to accept the environment setup

  • reply with Y or y

• switch to user postgres with:

  • sudo -i -u postgres or su postgres -create database with:
  • psql -c 'CREATE DATABASE "my_diary";' -U postgres
    or createdb my_diary

• Create a user to access the database with:
  

  • psql -c "CREATE USER byron WITH PASSWORD 1234 createdb;" -U postgres where: byron is you user name and 1234 is the password

• Create tables in the database with:
  

  • python manage.py
    

• Launch the server with:

  • python run.py

You can copy paste this for a quick setup

git clone https://github.com/4dbyron/MyDiary.git
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r MyDiary/requirements.txt
cd MyDiary/
sudo -i -u postgres || su postgres
psql -c 'CREATE DATABASE "my_diary";' -U postgres || createdb my_diary
psql -c "CREATE USER byron WITH PASSWORD 1234 createdb;" -U postgres
python manage.py
python run.py

For Tests, run:

`pytest -v`
or
`pytest -v test_app.py`
or
`python -m pytest test_app.py`

Testing With Postman

• Start the server with python run.py
• launch Postman and enter in the desired endpoint to test. Example GET /entries fetches all entries. to achieve this with postman, you would to a GET request URL as: 127.0.0.1:5000/api/v1/entries

UI Built With

• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript

Contributing

Improvements to this application are highly welcomed. for now, reviewing the pull requests will one way of doing so.

Project Management

• Version Control: Git & Github
• MyDiary PivotalTracker

Authors

Byron Taaka

Acknowledgments

• Andela Kenya
• MaryAnne Ng'ang'a
• Eugene Mutai
• James Lemayian