Project-Starter

Step 1: Download the required software

• python
• libreoffice
• mySQL (Workbench)
• Memcashed

Step 2: Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/COSC-499-W2023/year-long-project-team-17.git

or

git clone git@github.com:COSC-499-W2023/year-long-project-team-17.git

Step 3: setup environment variables

cp .env.example .env

Fill in the values of the variables in .env file

Step 4: Create a Virtual Environment

python -m venv virt

For Windows

source virt/Scripts/activate

For Linux or MacOS

source virt/bin/activate

Step 5: Install the required dependencies

pip install -r app/requirements.txt

Step 6: Create the database

python mydb.py

Step 7: Make the necessary migrations to the database

python app/manage.py make migrations

python app/manage.py migrate

Step 8: Start the system

python app/manage.py runserver

Run automated tests

python app/manage.py test

Please use the provided folder structure for your docs (project plan, design documentation, communications log, weekly logs, and final documentation), source code, testing, etc. You are free to organize any additional internal folder structure as required by the project. Please use a branching workflow and once an item is ready, do remember to issue a PR, code review, and merge it into the develop branch and then the master branch.

.
├── year-long-project-team-17 # Documentation files (alternatively `doc`)
│   ├── app
        ├──dcrm
        ├──media
            ├──presentation_templates
            ├──presentations
            ├──profile_pictures
        ├──staticfiles
            ├──admin
            ├──django_extensions
            ├──icon_cache  
        ├──util
        ├──website
            ├──migrations
            ├──templates
                ├──images
                ├──partials
                ├──static
                    ├──images
            ├──tests
        ├──.env.example
        ├──gitignore
        ├──__init__.py
        ├──manage.py
        ├──mydb.py
        ├──requirements.txt
│   ├── docs              
│       ├──  weekly logs              
├── app                     
├── tests 
├── utils
└── README.md