Polar News

Developers: Erik Karwatowski

Development Setup

• Clone this repo
• Setup a local environment for testing using Mamp or setup Apache, Mysql, and PHP and virtuals hosts
• Styling is handled by sass, install Compass
• Install python ~3.5.
• Install pip, securely download get-pip.py.

python get-pip.py

• Configure Python Environment

• Install virtualenv

pip install virtualenv

• Start python3.5 env in directory of projects

virtualenv --python=python3.5 PATH/TO/PROJECT

• Activate python3.5 env

source PATH/TO/PROJECT/bin/activate

• Install required python packages

pip install requirements.txt

Development

• Copy polar_news/sample-settings.py to polar_news/settings.py and populate your local MYSQL database, user, and password
• Prepare local environment
• Compile css

cd polar/static/stylesheets/ && compass compile compile

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

python manage.py runserver