RapidSMS Thousand Days

RapidSMS project for tracking mother/child pairs and supporting interventions across the contiuum of care from conception to age two: the most critical 1000 days of a child's life.

Includes modules for:

• Antenatal care appointment reminders
• Postnatal care appointment reminders
• Growth monitoring and analysis
• Arbitrary exploration of patient data
• API for accessing patient information
• Simple exporting of data formatted for csv, html, json, R, or SAS
• A/B and split testing for web views and SMS messages
• Event tracking and cohort analysis
• Scripts for provisioning and managing servers

Below you will find basic setup instructions for the thousand project. To begin you should have the following applications installed on your local development system:

• Python >= 2.6 (2.7 recommended)
• pip >= 1.1
• virtualenv >= 1.7
• virtualenvwrapper >= 3.0
• Postgres >= 8.4 (9.1 recommended)
• git >= 1.7

Getting Started

To setup your local environment you should create a virtualenv and install the necessary requirements:

virtualenv --distribute thousand-env
$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/pip install -r $PWD/requirements/dev.txt

Then create a local settings file and set your DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to use it:

cp thousand/settings/local.example.py thousand/settings/local.py
echo "export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=thousand.settings.local" >> $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/postactivate
echo "unset DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE" >> $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/postdeactivate

Exit the virtualenv and reactivate it to activate the settings just changed:

deactivate
workon thousand-env

Create the Postgres database and run the initial syncdb/migrate:

createdb -E UTF-8 deployproj
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py migrate

Load timelines and milestones:

python manage.py loaddata appointments_timeline.json
python manage.py loaddata appointments_milestone.json

You should now be able to run the development server:

python manage.py runserver

Along with celery and celerybeat:

python manage.py celery worker -E --loglevel=info  --settings=thousand.settings
python manage.py celery beat --loglevel=info --settings=thousand.settings

Production

See included nginx.conf.example for example web server configuration

To generate admin credentials for circus-web:

printf "admin:$(openssl passwd -crypt ch@ng3m3)\n" >> htpasswd-example

Use Django's management command to prepare static assets:

python manage.py collectstatic

For production deployment, there is an included circus.ini file for circus that can be used to start and manage the django and celery services:

circusd --daemon circus.ini

Then use:

circusctl

Or:

circus-top

Then navigate to http://circus.example.com to manage circus

Navigate to http://celery.example.com to manage celery

Provisioning

The Thousand Days project includes Salt states, and a Fabric fabfile for server provisioning and management.

You can test the provisioning/deployment using Vagrant.

After installing Vagrant, install Salty Vagrant:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-salt

Installing vagrant-cachier will help avoid repeated downloads of project dependencies if you reload or provision VMs often.:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier

Edit salt/roots/pillar/users.sls and add your user and ssh key, following the examples. Later you'll be able to ssh to the vagrant system using that userid and key.

Using the Vagrantfile you can start up the VM. This requires the precise32 box:

vagrant up

You can find out how ssh is set up by running:

vagrant ssh_config

Example output:

$ vagrant ssh-config
Host default
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User vagrant
  Port 2222

You can ssh in as any user with:

ssh -p 2222 yourusername@127.0.0.1

where yourusername is a user you added to users.sls, and 2222 and 127.0.0.1 are changed to whatever vagrant reported.

You can also ssh in as vagrant by simply doing:

vagrant ssh

and vagrant has sudo, so you can do anything you need that way.

If you change the salt files and want to update the virtual machine, you can:

ssh -p 2222 localhost sudo salt-call --local state.highstate [-l debug]

but it's easier to:

vagrant reload

which will both provision and reboot.

You can provision a new server with the provision fab command:

fab vagrant provision

Then you have to do an initial deploy. You also use this command to deploy updates:

fab vagrant deploy

or:

fab vagrant deploy:<branchname>

The Vagrantfile arranges for port 80 in the vm to be accessible as port 8089 on the host system. The fabfile sets up the configuration to assume a hostname of dev.example.com. So to visit the running web site:

1. Add 127.0.0.1 dev.example.com to your /etc/hosts file (and change the hostname if you changed it in the fabfile).
2. Visit http://dev.example.com:8089/

Deployment

For future deployments, you can deploy changes to a particular environment with the deploy command. This takes an optional branch name to deploy. If the branch is not given, it will use the default branch defined for this environment in env.branch:

fab staging deploy
fab staging deploy:new-feature

New requirements or South migrations are detected by parsing the VCS changes and will be installed/run automatically.

Experiments

The Thousand Days project includes rapidsms-xray for split testing experiments and event tracking.

To conduct web split testing experiments, add your experiments to your app's context_processors.py which makes the experiment choice available in the RequestContext. You don't have to put your experiments in a context_processor -- its just a convenient location so they can all be in one place.

See xray/context_processors.py and xray/templates/xray/index.html for example usage.

To conduct sms split testing experiments, add your experiments to your app.py or handler and ensure that the xray app is listed in your setting.py's INSTALLED_APPS xray/app.py will deal with identifying experiment participation during the router's filter phase, so experiments can be conducted in any of the subsequent incoming phases.

Please be aware that experiment participation is handled separately for web and sms split testing (specifically, web participant identity is cookie-based for non-logged-in uses and is user_id-based for logged-in users, whereas sms participant identity is based on mobile number) -- that is, a web experiment participant cannot be scored by a SMS conversion event and vice-versa.

See xray/app.py for example usage.

Events

TODO

Documentation

Documentation on using rapidsms-thousand-days is available on Read The Docs.

Running the Tests

You can run the tests with via:

python setup.py test

or:

python runtests.py

License

rapidsms-thousand-days is released under the BSD License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Contributing

If you think you've found a bug or are interested in contributing to this project check out rapidsms-thousand-days on Github.