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Contributing

  • Fork the repository into your own personal github account.
  • Clone your fork of the repository. git clone git@github.com:YourGitHubName/website.git
  • Ensure you are running python 3.6. python -V or python3 -V should output Python 3.6.x
  • Create a virtualenv to isolate the project dependencies. python3 -m venv pythonie-venv or virtualenv -p python3 pythonie-venv works for Ubuntu.
  • Activate the virtualenv. source pythonie-venv/bin/activate
  • Change into the website directory. cd website
  • Install the dependencies. pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
  • Set up the database. python pythonie/manage.py migrate --settings=pythonie.settings.dev
  • Run the server. python pythonie/manage.py runserver --settings=pythonie.settings.dev
  • Check that it works by visiting http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser. (You should see a 'welcome to Wagtail' site, as you will not see content until you've added it in your DB)
  • Create a super user on your local DB. python pythonie/manage.py createsuperuser --settings=pythonie.settings.dev
  • Log in to wagtail with your superuser by navigating to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/.
  • To get rid of redis errors, install and run redis server locally and set environment variable export REDISCLOUD_URL=127.0.0.1:6379
  • To test flake8 compliance in the python source code flake8 pythonie/

Running Tests

  • pythonie/manage.py test pythonie --settings=pythonie.settings.tests --verbosity=2