RunningCause

A django project to provide runners an easy to use interface to gather money from sponsors when running for a good cause.

Development environment

Setting up a development environment on a Ubuntu machine, you'll have to do the following.

Python 2.7 and virtualenv

Make sure you have both python 2.7 and the virtualenv tool installed.

Install the postgresql dependency

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

Install the Python dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Developing on 

cd into the project root dir
virtualenv -p python2.7 venv initialise python 3 virtual environment
. venv/bin/activate start the virtual environment
pip install -r requirements.txt install required python modules
./manage.py migrate initialise the database
./manage.py createsuperuser create admin user
./manage.py runserver start the app ./manage.py makemessages update translations

Production requirements (on heroku)

• redis
• celery
• postgresql

celery

celery -A RunningCause worker --loglevel=debug

Deployment

A webhook is placed on GitHub that asks Heroku to deploy the site whenever changes are pushed to the ´development´ branch.