CSUMB-SCD / problem_solvent

Community problem solver using crowd sourced knowledge.

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Wiki

See our Wiki to learn about our process.

Our Strategy

We have a Cloud9 workspace, so we can easily work on something and avoid merge conflicts. We also split up the tasks into backend, frontend, and deployment. Django also allows for separating the project into 'applications,' so we can each work on independent aspects of the project at the same time.

Github commits don't reflect our contributions exactly because many were pushed from Cloud9.

Known Issues

Heroku by default uses an ephemeral file system and does not store the uploaded photos. It works perfect temporarily and works on cloud 9.

We would need to implement buckets on an AWS S3 server and only having a 3 person group limited our capabilities. It would have been interesting to learn, but we did not have time.

Running the App

1. Make sure you have setup the proper environment variables (PostgreSQL, Redis, Google Auth)
2. python manage.py runserver 0:8080
3. If port 5432 is giving error run: sudo service postgresql start
4. If port 6379 is giving error run: sudo service redis-server start

Go to website: Heroku Application Link (broken)

Other useful Django commands

Run unittests

python manage.py test

When static files aren't loading

python manage.py collectstatic

Add a new app

python manage.py startapp your_app_name

Setup the apps/db (creates db entries and gets everything ready)

python manage.py makemigrations python manage.py migrate

Start postgres server

if something on port 5432 isn't working sudo service postgresql start

Start redis service

if something on port 6397 isn't working sudo service redis-server start

Backup DB

This will save it properly

python manage.py dumpdata --natural-foreign --exclude auth.permission --exclude contenttypes --exclude admin.logentry --indent 4 > data.json

Run with test db for checking with throw away db

python manage.py testserver data_test.json --addrport 0:8080

Restore db

python manage.py loaddata db.json