README.md

DB Chat Control Center

server component for the angular pubnub chat application. Built with python

Configuration

DEBUG = True
SECRET_KEY = ('\xa3\xb6\x15\xe3E\xc4\x8c\xbaT\x14\xd1:'
              '\xafc\x9c|.\xc0H\x8d\xf2\xe5\xbd\xd5')

All configuration is contained within the app.cfg

DB Configuration

# production configuration := uses mysql
# cloud-based db solution for application scaling & mobile endpoint support
if mode == 'prod':
    # production configuration := uses python-anywhere mysql configuration
    engine = create_engine('mysql+mysqldb://username:p@ssw0rd@mysql.server/username$default', convert_unicode=True)
elif mode == 'dev':
    # development configuration & benchmark := uses mysql
    engine = create_engine('mysql+mysqldb://root:p@ssw0rd@localhost/chat_app', convert_unicode=True)
else:
    # test configuration := uses sqlite
    engine = create_engine('sqlite:///chat.db', convert_unicode=True)

The database.py file contains all db configuration settings. Currently the app supports 3 levels of configuration

namely prod, dev & test. prod & dev uses mysql, while test uses sqlite db

Requirements (Python 2.7)

• flask framework 0.9 # pip install flask // should install all base dependencies
• flask-sqlalchemy # orm for python
• flask-admin # pip install flask-admin
• requests # http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/