This repo has been archived and the Django project taken down in favor of simpler project architecture. Code for the new ReconAsia site can be found at reconasia_wp.
This is a Django project for CSIS' Reconnecting Asia project.
This is a Django project set up to run as a Procfile-based application. At a minimum, make sure you have Python 3, PostgreSQL, virtualenv and heroku or foreman installed. Elasticsearch, Memcached, and Redis are required for advanced features, such as search and caching. For a more detailed explanation, see DETAILED_INSTRUCTIONS.md.
Create a virtualenv for the project, then pip install -r dev-requirements.txt.
Memcached note: installation requires pylibmc, which requires that libmemcached be installed on the system. If installation fails, you might need to install libmemcached with your package manager, and/or install pylibmc directly in the virtualenv, for example:
$ pip install pylibmc==1.5.2 --install-option="--with-libmemcached=/opt/local"
GEOS and GDAL note: running locally requires that geos and gdal be installed on your system. You might need to install them with your package manager.
You'll need to create a .env file with values for SECRET_KEY and DATABASE_URL, as well a few others; look in newsilkroad/settings.py for lines that have os.getenv for other environment variables. You'll probably want to set DEBUG=True in development.
If you want to test file handling, you'll need to set the various AWS settings for a test bucket.
If you want to develop Sass/CSS or JavaScript, you should also (have node installed and then) run npm i so you get all of the build dependencies for running the Gulp build commands. See gulpfile.js and package.json for more info.
Make sure you have the following dependencies installed:
- PostgreSQL
- PostGIS
- Memcached (caching)
- Elasticsearch (search)
First make sure you're virtualenv is activated, then run heroku local:run python manage.py check to check for any issues.
Either get a copy of an existing database or run heroku local:run python manage.py migrate to create the tables in a new database.
At this point, you should be able to heroku local:run python manage.py runserver to get the Django development server running at http://localhost:8000/.
On an OS X running homebrew, if you want to compile pygraphviz for use with django-extensions, you need to brew install graphviz --with-bindings first, and then in your virtualenv, set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, per Homebrew's recommendations.
CFLAGS=-I$(brew --prefix)/include LDFLAGS=-L$(brew --prefix)/lib pip install pygraphviz
You can run the various Django management commands via heroku local:run or foreman, which will pick up the environment variables in your .env file. So to run the development web server, you'd run the command heroku local:run python manage.py runserver from the project directory. heroku local:run ./manage.py runserver should also work.
You can run tests locally with the following command:
heroku local:run python manage.py test
For more detailed instrutions, refer to the DETAILED_INSTRUCTIONS.md.
Check out the docs on upgrading Django.