Development Setup

Pre-requirements

• Make sure you have Python (>= 2.7) installed

• Make sure you have pip installed+

• Make sure you have Postgres installed

• Make sure you have postgis installed

• Make sure you have gdal installed

• Make sure you have libgeoip installed

Python dependencies

• pip install django
• pip install django-simple-history
• pip install django-registration-redux
• pip install psycopg2
• pip install bootstrap-admin

Local config

Add a heart/settings_local.py file containing something like:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis',
        'NAME': 'helphelp2_dev',
        'USER': '',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': 'localhost'
   }
}

SECRET_KEY = 'my super secret key'

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["localhost"]

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.dummy.EmailBackend'

DEBUG = True

# you might overwrite the path of the log file here to avoid permission issues

Create Database

• Run psql to get into the Postgres shell
• Run CREATE DATABASE helphelp2_dev; in there

Migrate Database

• python manage.py migrate auth
• python manage.py migrate

Setup first User

Run python manage.py createsuperuser and follow the instructions

Start Server

python manage.py runserver