CORE

Core is the power house of FoodBoard app, an open source meal review and management platform. More information can be found on the wiki. You can download the latest release here.

Tech

Core is written in Python3 and Django 1.11.

Collaboration

Want to contribute? Great!

You need to have postgreSQL installed and set up on your machine.

Fork the repository. Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md guide.

Installation

Mac Users

Be sure to have the following installed and setup first.

• Python 3
• PostgreSQL (Ensure the server is running)
• Brew
• Xcode

Next,

• Install Virtualenvwrapper.

• Create a virtual environment for the project.

  mkvirtualenv <envname>
  

• Use the flag -p python3 if you also have python 2 installed

  mkvirtualenv -p python3 <envname>
  

• Install requirements in the virtual environment created

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Create a database with PostgreSQL.

• Create a .env file and copy the contents of .env.example file to it.

• Replace

  • DB_NAME with the name of your database,
  • DB_USER with your database user name,
  • DB_PASSWORD with your database password,
  • SECRET_KEY with the value gotten when you run this script in the terminal python3 scripts/secret_key_gen.py.

• Run database migrations with this command

  python3 manage.py migrate
  

• Run server to ensure everything is working fine.

  python3 manage.py runserver
  

To run tests

$ python manage.py test

$ flake8 .