fastfrwrd / Victr

a competition (hack day, design contest, video contest, anything with links) management tool built on Django

Victr

a tool to manage your competitions (like hack days!) by Tucker Bickler, Paul Marbach, Raul Mireles, and Shela Xu

coming soon to a GitHub near you

"to the victr go the spoils"

Suggested installation procedure:

1. create a new django project with django-admin.py startproject mysite

2. create an apps folder cd mysite && mkdir apps && touch ./apps/__init.py__

3. clone Victr into the apps folder

4. add the following to settings.py:

   import os
   import sys
   
   PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__)
   sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'apps'))
   

5. follow the Manual configs below

Manual configs:

settings.py:

this needs to map to your the url you set in urls.py

LOGIN_URL = '/victr/auth/login'
LOGOUT_URL = '/victr/auth/logout'
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/victr/'

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ... #your other apps are above this
    'victr', #boom
    'django.contrib.admin', #to edit and add events
    ... #other apps, your victr extension
)
    
import django.conf.global_settings as DEFAULT_SETTINGS
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = DEFAULT_SETTINGS.TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS + (
    'django.core.context_processors.request',
)

urls.py

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    #this points to http://yoursiteurl.com/victr/. you can do root if you want too with the pattern r'^'
    url(r'^victr/', include('victr.urls')),
    ...
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

Dependencies

pil (for thumbnail images)

$ > pip install pil

Testing procedures

dump fixtures

$ > python manage.py dumpdata --exclude=auth --exclude=contenttypes > apps/victr/fixtures/initial_data.json  

install fixtures

$ > python manage.py reset victr  
$ > python manage.py syncdb