We Are All IT Specialists

This is a demo site, built with Sheer

What does it do?

When you run 'sheer index' inside this directory, all of the "IT Specialist" jobs will be pulled from usajobs.gov and loaded into Elasticsearch.

When you run 'sheer serve' inside this directory, and point your browser at 127.0.0.1:7000, you'll be able to peruse those jobs at your leisure, and even search them!

Is that it?

There's also an animated US Flag

How do I make it work?

Step 1: Get elasticsearch and python 2.7

That is beyond the scope of this document. Be sure to install virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper!

http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Step 2: Install Sheer

Check out the sheer Github project:

$ git clone https://github.com/cfpb/sheer.git

create a virtualenv for sheer:

$ mkvirtualenv sheer

The new virtualenv will activate right away. to activate it later on (say, in a new terminal session) use the command "workon sheer"

Install sheer into the virtualenv with the -e flag (which allows you to make changes to sheer itself):

$ pip install -e ~/path/to/sheer

Install sheer's python requirements:

$ pip install -r ~/path/to/sheer/requirements.txt

You should now be able to run the sheer command:

$ sheer

usage: sheer [-h] [--debug] {inspect,index,serve} ...
sheer: error: too few arguments

That means it's working!

Step 3: Explore the demo

check out this here repo into some directory on your machine
cd [checkout directory]
do this

sheer index

$ sheer serve

And browse to http://localhost:7000

You may also want to check out http://localhost:7000/api/v1/q/jobs.json

Enjoy!

rosskarchner / itspecialists