Python Demo

Used techonlogies

• Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
• Python 2.7
• Django 1.7
• PostgreSQL
• SQLite (test settings: src/settings/test_settings.py)
• FE libraries managed by django-bower: typeahead.js, underscore, jquery, bootstrap
• django-nose and selenium used for testing
• supervisord for daemonizing gunicorn and celery
• gunicorn workers for WSGI protocol
• celery for scheduling the daily import
• for full list of the used Python packages see the src/requirements/common.txt

Install instrurctions

Create and activate a virtualenv and install the Python requirements.

pip install -r src/requirements/dev.txt

Create a secret key, complete your local settings and create the shell script for activating your environment.

python -c 'import random; import string; print "".join([random.SystemRandom().choice(string.digits + string.letters) for i in range(100)])'
cp dist/local.json.dist dist/local.json
j2 dist/templates/env_start.sh.j2 dist/local.json > bin/env_start.sh

Activate your environment

source bin/env_start.sh

Run the migrations:

python manage.py migrate

Create a superuser for the admin:

python manage.py createsuperuser

Install the bower components:

python manage.py bower install

Running the tests

Before running the tests collect the static files as the tests run in production mode.

python manage.py collectstatic --noinput

Running the tests with nose's test runner. (Selenium is set to use Firefox so make sure you have installed it.)

python manage.py test --settings=src.settings.test_settings --with-coverage --cover-package=src.apps.hotel --cover-html

Running the development server

python manage.py runserver

Using supervisord

Starting the supervisor deamon that manages the gunicorn workers, celery beat and the celery workers.

supervisord -c etc/supervisord.conf

Import management command

python manage.py import data/city.csv city
python manage.py import data/hotel.csv hotel