This project is inspired by The Flask Mega Tutorial

how to enable text search

brew install elasticsearch

I used elasticsearch followed by tutorial

brew services start elasticsearch or elasticsearch if don't want a background service.

how to enable export module

brew install redis and then start service by redis-server

how to run locally

optional modules

• this is for elasticsearch module

  elasticsearch -d

• this is for fake email

  python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:8025

• this is for redis-server and redis rq

  redis-server

  rq worker microblog-tasks

main application

export FLASK_APP=microBlog.py

pip install -r requirement.txt

flask run

how to run in docker

enable elasticsearch

docker run --name elasticsearch -d -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 --rm \
    -e "discovery.type=single-node" \
    docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-oss:6.1.1

• inorder to let elastic work in this application, you have to let the elasticsearch up running, and then make some changes on database because of design of this application
• for those post that before elasticsearch up running, elasticsearch will not index them, again, because of design.

enable redis-server and rq worker

docker run --name redis -d -p 6379:6379 redis:3-alpine


docker run --name rq-worker -d --rm \
    --link mysql:dbserver --link redis:redis-server \
    -e DATABASE_URL=mysql+pymysql://microblog:<database-password>@dbserver/microblog \
    -e REDIS_URL=redis://redis-server:6379/0 \
    --entrypoint venv/bin/rq \
    microblog:latest worker -u redis://redis-server:6379/0 microblog-tasks

enable main application

docker run --name microblog -d -p 8000:5000 --rm \
	--link mysql:dbserver \
	-e DATABASE_URL=mysql+pymysql://microblog:<database-password>@dbserver/microblog \
	--link elasticsearch:elasticsearch \
    -e ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://elasticsearch:9200 \
    --link redis:redis-server \
    -e REDIS_URL=redis://redis-server:6379/0 \
    microblog:latest

setting up email(optional)

docker run --name microblog -d -p 8000:5000 --rm -e SECRET_KEY=my-secret-key \
    -e MAIL_SERVER=smtp.googlemail.com -e MAIL_PORT=587 -e MAIL_USE_TLS=true \
    -e MAIL_USERNAME=<your-gmail-username> -e MAIL_PASSWORD=<your-gmail-password> \
    --link mysql:dbserver --link redis:redis-server \
    -e DATABASE_URL=mysql+pymysql://microblog:<database-password>@dbserver/microblog \
    -e REDIS_URL=redis://redis-server:6379/0 \
    microblog:latest

known bugs

1. translate to chinese is not working properly.

	* because g.locale() returns 'zh_Hans_CN' instead of 'zh_CN', it brings a lot of trouble to the logic. Here I am not going to fix it, because it is just a educational project.

2. docker deployment cannot insert chinese, maybe because of mysql settings.

feature request

1. delete posts by user, and delete search index as well