#Simple Stock Info App

##Installation instructions (tested on Ubuntu virtual machine)

###Backend server setup

These instructions assume that node.js and npm are already installed.

Install the database engine

sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev

Setup virtualenvwrapper, django, django rest framework, and yahoo finance

pip install virtualenvwrapper
pip install django djangorestframework markdown django-filter ipython
pip install yahoo-finance

Pull the project down from github into a source directory

git clone https://github.com/jskitz/stockinfo.git
export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=stockinfo.settings
cd stockinfo
./manage.py migrate          # Creates the database models
./manage.py createsuperuser  # admin, admin@example.com, password
./manage.py collectstatic    # moves assets to static directory
./manage.py import_stocks    # imports the stocks to the database
./manage.py runserver        # runs the django web server at port 8000

Navigate to http://localhost:8000/api/ and login using admin credentials from above.

• http://localhost:8000/api/stocks/?q=AAP - endpoint for doing a simple prefix match
• http://localhost:8000/api/stocks/history/?symbol=YHOO - for getting a month worth of historic data. This endpoint would likely change based on IDs once I get Ember working.

###Frontend setup

Work in progress

This part of the project is not yet completed. Roughly 8 hours was spent trying to ramp up on ember-cli, but haven't learned enough yet to be able to move forward. Because Django templates also use the {{ }} syntax, each of the handlebar templates need to be wrapped in verbatim tags to stop django from processing them. This is a rather large annoyance that makes me rethink using Django for the backend. In any case, I started with what I knew in order to make progress.