This project is built using the Flask web framework. It runs on Python 2.7 or 3.4+.

1. To run the app locally, first clone this repository and cd into it.

2. Create a new virtual environment.

   • If using vanilla virtualenv:

     virtualenv venv
     source venv/bin/activate
     

3. Install the requirements.

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Copy the .env_example file to secrets.sh, and edit it to include:

   • your [TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN]
   • your [Twilio API key]
   • your [TWILIO_NUMBER]
   • your [TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID]
   • your [SECRET_KEY]
   • your [DATABASE_URL]

5. Run source secrets.sh to apply the environment variables

6. Run the postgresql server

7. Create the gigaware database in your local enviornment

   • run psql gigaware to verify that the db doesn't already exist
   • createdb gigaware
   • db.create_all()

8. Run python manage.py db upgrade to build migration models for the db and python manage.py db downgrade to drop the tables

9. Run python manage.py runserver to start the app