joancefet / BTC-USD-Exchange-Rates-App

Django Application Displaying Exchange Rates For Bitcoin

BTC-USD-Exchange-Rates-App

Django Application Displaying Exchange Rates For Bitcoin

Running Using Docker

Requirements

• Docker
• Docker-compose
• Git

Clone the repository into a directory of your own choice.

git clone https://github.com/SamwelOpiyo/BTC-USD-Exchange-Rates-App.git

cd BTC-USD-Exchange-Rates-App

Starting the server

Build docker container

$ docker-compose build

Start docker container

$ docker-compose up or $ docker-compose up -d for daemon

Visit 127.0.0.1:8000 or 0.0.0.0:8000

Running locally

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Make sure you have pip (pip --version)
• pip install virtualenv to install virtual environment
• Influxdb
• Redis-server
• Git

Clone the repository into a directory of your own choice.

git clone https://github.com/SamwelOpiyo/BTC-USD-Exchange-Rates-App.git

cd BTC-USD-Exchange-Rates-App

Edit the configuration file bitcoin_rates/settings.py appropriately or leave it for default redis-server and influxdb settings.

Start redis-server on a new terminal window/tab

• redis-server or redis-server -d for daemon mode

Start Influxdb

• systemctl start influxdb

Install requirements

• pip install -r requirements.txt (you almost certainly want to do this in a virtualenv).

Database Migration

• python manage.py migrate

Create logs directory

• mkdir logs

Starting the server

Starting celery worker and beat

$ celery -A bitcoin_rates -l info worker -B

Starting gunicorn server

$ ./bash_scripts/start.sh

Visit 127.0.0.1:8000 or 0.0.0.0:8000