INSTALL.md

Development Environment

Its super easy to set up our development environment

Collect Pre-requisites

Install python-pip, python-dev and virtualenvwrapper

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev
sudo -H pip install virtualenvwrapper

Get the files

You can clone it directly from https://github.com/amfoss/website

git clone https://github.com/amfoss/meetup.git

Setup development environment

First, some initialization steps. Most of this only needs to be done one time. You will want to add the command to source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh to your shell startup file (.bashrc or .zshrc) changing the path to virtualenvwrapper.sh depending on where it was installed by pip.

export WORKON_HOME=~/Envs
mkdir -p $WORKON_HOME
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Lets create a virtual environment for our project

mkvirtualenv --python=`which python3` meetup
workon meetup

Install requirements

All the requirements are mentioned in the file requirements.txt.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create local_settings.py

cp meetup/local_settings_sample.py meetup/local_settings.py

Setup database

In the development phase, we use sqlite3.db Setup tables in the DB

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Collect all the static files for fast serving

python manage.py collectstatic

Create an admin account

python manage.py createsuperuser

Run server

python manage.py runserver