E-vo

An e-voting system using Blockchain

Initial Setup:

1. Install Ganache on your system.

Ganache is a personal Ethereum blockchain which you can use to run tests, execute commands, and inspect state while controlling how the chain operates.

2. Install the required packages by running:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Add a brownie development network by running the following command:

brownie networks add development gui host='http://127.0.0.1:7545' cmd=ganache

You have now told brownie that you have a blockchain network, meant for development purposes and named it gui, since it has a nice gui interface from ganache. We use this blockchain network to deploy our smart contracts from inside e-vo.

Running the application:

1. Open Ganache.
2. Run the following commands.

cd path-to-evo/
python deploy.py 
python manage.py runserver

Recompiling Smart contracts:

If you wish to make any changes to the blockchain smart contracts, you mut recompile it after doing so. The following comand does it.

cd path-to-evo/ethereum/
brownie compile --all

References:

• eth-brownie documentation
• web3.py documentation

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.