Django project rendero

Hi! This is the Django source for rendero.

TODO

If you followed the minimalish django starter instructions, you still have a couple of steps to go to make a thing that lives on the internet.

create a new postgres database locally (look here for more)
duplicate .env.example to .env and fill it out
run python manage.py migrate
start the server with python manage.py runserver
do good work

finally:

create a new repo (on github -- go here)
git add/commit/push all of your code to this new repo
go to render.com, go to "Blueprints" and click the "New Blueprint Instance" button. assuming that your github account is connected to your render account, connect your new repo with the new blueprint
- set the ALLOWED_HOSTS value to the domain name you want to use and/or the .onrender.com sub-domain (see below). comma separate domains if you have multiple.
- it can be confusing to do the previous step because you won't know which .onrender.com domain you'll be given when setting up the blueprint... uh... I guess you can write some domain in ALLOWED_HOSTS like example.com, do the render blueprint deployment, then see which domain you actually got, and then edit the ALLOWED_HOSTS value to the right .onrender.com domain... sorry, this is not perfect! TODO make it better.
ok phew, you should be live!!!
delete this whole TODO section in this readme and anything else you want to delete; you could keep the little powered by minimalish django starter note at the bottom? but don't fret.

Development basics

You need a PostgreSQL database

For the project to work in development mode, you'll need to have PostgreSQL running, and PostgreSQL will need to have a database named rendero inside it. If you're on mac, I suggest Postgres.app to run postgres locally and Postico to view & change stuff in the database.

Getting started the first time

To get started, navigate to the directory where this code lives. If you're downloading this code fresh, you'll need to run these commands:

python3 -m venv venv
pip install -r requirements.txt

Getting started every time

If you've done that before, or if you just did the minimalish-django-starter setup, you can skip those two lines and just run

source venv/bin/activate
python manage.py runserver

If you get hollered at to run some other command like python manage.py migrate hit Ctrl-C to stop the server, do that and then run python manage.py runserver again, no worries.

robsimmons / rendero