PyGRAZ website

The PyGRAZ website currently supports the creation of meetups and for users to make session proposal which can then be assigned to a meetup.

Each proposal can have descriptive information associated with it like an abstract, a description and notes. Slides can be linked to from the session page (as well as the meetup page).

Requirements

• Django and everything mentioned in the requirements.txt
• Compass
• For all functionality: a Postmark account
• For all functionality: a Recaptcha account

To install the Python requirements, using pip is recommended.

Setup

First clone this repository:

git clone <url of this repo>
cd website

Then create a virtualenv for all the Python requirements, activate it and install the requirements:

mkvirtualenv --no-site-packages env
source env/bin/active
pip install -r requirements/base.txt
pip install -r requirements/development.txt

We are using a multi-settings-file approach for handling settings on different target systems. For local development you should use "pygraz_website/settings/development.py" which just sets some plain defaults and doesn't send emails.

Next, install the pre-commit hooks to perform static checks on your code everytime you commit:

pre-commit install

Now on to creating the database. By default, the website looks for a PostgreSQL database by the name of "pygraz-website" accessibly by the current system user.

If you want to use for instance a sqlite database, add following content to your development.py file you created in the last step:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': join(ROOT, 'localdb.sqlite3'),
        'USER': '',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': '',
        'PORT': '',
    }
}

Now run following commands to initialize the database:

python manage-dev.py syncdb
python manage-dev.py migrate

To finally start the server run ...

python manage-dev.py runserver

When you first visit http://localhost:8000, you will notice that all the stylesheets are still missing. For local development we would recommend that you open another terminal, go to the pygraz_website/static folder and execute following command:

compass watch

This will compile the stylesheets using Compass and keep the process running so that changes the .scss files are automatically compiled into .css files.

Components not included

The pygraz.org website uses the icomoon icon-font for its icons. Due to license restrictions we are not allowed to bundle it with the website's source code. For details on this font visit http://keyamoon.com/icomoon/

Deployment

For deployments, we are using an Ansible playbook which builds a production.zip and deploys that onto the target server:

cd ansible/playbooks
ansible-playbook -i ../hosts deploy.yml