Twitter Bot

This project is also a skeleton of a "Large" Flask application with Twitter bootstrap integration.

Twitter bot

This is the remote url for the app

$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/rahulrrixe/twitterbot.git

or

$ git remote set-url origin git@github.com:rahulrrixe/twitterbot.git

** index.html **

Requirements

• Python 2.7 or 2.6
• Sqlite
• pip

Getting started

Clone the repo to your computer in the desired folder:

$ git clone https://github.com/rahulrrixe/twitterbot.git

Use the requirements.txt to start dependencies in your virtualenv:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Start the server:

$ fab run
or
$ fab grun # for gunicorn server

Open the browser; http://localhost:5000 or with the terminal(OS X):

$ open http://localhost:5000

Initialize db

Set the db parameters in the default_settings.py or in the production.cfg file and start python interactive shell within the flask environment:

$ python runserver.py db init
$ python runserver.py db migrate
$ python runserver.py db upgrade

or

$ fab shell
>>> db.create_all()
>>> exit()

note: You must first create the database in Postgresql. From running this command on heroku, you will need to use heroku run "fab shell"

Unit testing

Add unittests to the manage_tests.py file and then start running the tests:

$ fab tests

Production Configuration

The cofiguration is given in config.py

For Heroku using gunicorn and production settings, do the following:.

Heroku Postgresql Database as primary, Check heroku.

Alembic Migrations

The flask-bootstrap skeleton now supports migrations using Alembic and Flask-SQLAlchemy. Auto Generating Migrations are working!

$ python runserver.py db -m "Added users table"

Contribute

1. Fork the repository on Github.
2. Send a pull request and don't forget to add yourself to the AUTHORS.md file.