syseng19-code

Code repository for systems engineering project.

Live API Documentation

Setting up a development environment

You'll need:

• Python 3.5 or better
• PostgreSQL with a valid user
• virtualenvwrapper

Create a new virtualenv using the virutalenvwrapper, where $envname is the name of your virtualenv.

$ /path/to/mkvirtualenv $envname

Activate it.

$ workon $envname

Install the dependencies.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

If you haven't already, create a new database for the app. You should be using a command similar to below:

$ su - postgres -c "createdb mentormatch"

Copy .env.example to .env and populate it with your own values. Use some random string for SECRET_KEY.

$ cp .env.example .env
$ vi .env

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_USER=postgres
DB_NAME=mentormatch
DB_PASSWD=password

HOSTNAME=localhost
SECRET_KEY=";isbdd;szdbs;idfbszdjlfib"

Migrate the database tables.

$ python manage.py migrate

Run the server.

$ python manage.py runserver

Navigate to http://localhost:8000 and you should see the app!