ndia-django
Northside Digital Innovation Alliance (NDIA) project prototype in Django
The Django portion of the NDIA project aims to build a backend to manage and provide information about public technology centers, classes, and events in North Minneapolis. The backend will include an API endpoint that enables API clients to query the above information. The backend will also provide a UI for administrators to edit and manage the above information.
ndia-angular is intended to be a client of this backend.
This backend is deployed online at http://ndia.herokuapp.com/. See http://ndia.herokuapp.com/api/events/?format=json for example output.
Dependencies
##Python
Make sure you have Python on your computer. The following two commands should work:
python --version
pip --version
Recommended - virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper
Virtualenv makes it possible to install multiple Python environments on one computer; including installing a Python environment just for this project. It is not required to run this, but if you're working on multiple Python projects, you should probably install this.
virtualenvwrapper provides commands and organization for using multiple virtualenvs.
Instructions in this README assume that virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper are installed and make use of those tools.
Install
pip install virtualenv
pip install virtualenvwrapper
Install Northside Digital Assets System Backend
Get Northside Digital Assets System Backend
git clone https://github.com/OpenTwinCities/ndia-django.git
cd ndia-django
mkvirtualenv ndia-djagno
pip install -r requirements.txt
Prep the Database
By default, the Northside Digital Assets System Backend will use a SQLite database named ndia.db, which requires no configuration for connection. See Configure Northside Digital Assets System Database below if you would like to use a PostgreSQL database instead.
Regradless of which database you use, you will need to run database migrations to prepare the database.
cd ndia-django/ndiaDjango
python manage.py migrate
Create a Superuser
In order to login to the backend's UI and add data, you're going to need a superuser in the database. To create one, simply run
cd ndia-django/ndiaDjango
python manage.py createsuperuser
Run Northside Digital Assets System
cd ndia-django/ndiaDjango
workon ndia-django
python manage.py runserver
See the Northside Digital Assets System
Manage the data
Visit http://localhost:8000/admin/ and enter the username and password
created above. Then, use the UI to add an Organization, then an Event.
Query the API
Visit http://localhost:8000/api/events/?format=json
Update the Northside Digital Assets System
cd ndia-django
git pull
ndia-django
pip install -r requirements.txt
cd ndiaDjango
python manage.py migrate
Configure Northside Digital Assets System Database
This section will help you setup the Northside Digital Asset System to use a PostgreSQL database.
Install PostgreSQL
Obviously, you'll need to have PostgreSQL installed and running. So download and install it.
Configure
First, create a user and database in PostgreSQL
sudo su postgres
createuser ndia -W
createdb ndia
We also need to update PostgreSQL to allow for password based authentication of
the user that we just created. Edit the PostgreSQL Authentication Configuration
File (located at /etc/postgresql//main/pg_hba.conf in Debian) and
add the following to the file immediately after # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only:
local all ndia trust
Save and exit. Now restart PostgreSQL
sudo service postgresql restart
Next, configure the Northside Digital Assets System to use what we just created.
cd ndiaDjango/ndiaDjango
cp config.py.sample config.py
Now edit settings.py with your favorite editor. If you have a default installation of PostgreSQL on your local machine, then you do not need to change the host or port settings.