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Contribute

Want to practice working on web apps? Check out Contribute.md for some feature ideas.

Installation:

• Set up your virtual environment

• Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Static assets are hosted on S3. Make a new S3 bucket and grab your security credentials. Put your keys in your environmental variables:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=''
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=''

And in settings.py update AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME to be the bucket name you picked.

Then run collectstatic to grab all your static assets and send them to S3 where your app can access them. You'll need to run this again each time you change your static assets.

python manage.py collectstatic

• Set up your database. Open a Postgres shell:

python manage.py dbshell

and create your database:

CREATE DATABASE blaggregator_dev;

The semicolon is critical. Then go back to bash and populate the database from the app's models. IMPORTANT: when you are creating your admin account, don't use the same email address as your Hacker School account or you won't be able to create a user account for yourself. Do username+root@example.com or something.

python manage.py syncdb

If you get this error:

OperationalError: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Then open settings.py and under HOST: add /tmp.

• Optional but helpful: turn on debugging in your environment:

export DJANGO_DEBUG=True

• Then run a local server:

python manage.py runserver

You can administer your app through the handy-dandy admin interface. You can be logged in as the admin or as your user account, but not both at the same time.