Webapp backend for an idea on how to reward work. Using an RPG like system of giving experience and leveling up people for their roles (or classes) based on accomplishments during their work. For a better outline of the project, check out the docs.

The app is written using Python 2.7 with Flask for the web framework and MongoDB as the database backend. It will provide an adaptive RESTful API along with a simple backend generated HTML interface (to start). It is written to use virtualenv. It will be done with good test coverage and against the flake8 (pyflakes + PEP8) linting utility.

For setup, if you have virtualenvwrapper and make installed you can just run:

make init

For those who do not, you can make a virtualenv (I recommend something like .env or venv), activate it, then pip install the requirements, copy the template settings file (described below), and it should be good to go. (I would like to write a better setup script, probably a setup.py file at some point). So for Linux:

virtualenv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp rpg/settings.py_template rpg/settings.py
python serve.py

The app settings live in the rpg/settings.py. I have included a template. The file holds various settings for how the application should behave, more settings will be added as functionality and features get added (like when I get around to making the logging at a production level capacity). The current settings are:

• DEBUG straight forward, boolean that enables debugging settings
• SECRET_KEY this is a string that is used as part of the salt in password hashes
• MONGO_HOST dictionary that describes the URI of the mongodb instance to be used, keys are 'host' (the address of the machine) and 'port' (the port the service is listening on)
• DEFAULT_SESSION dictionary (temporary for now) that defines the defaults for a newly created session, mostly will be things like the default number of items returned for large lists (paginated) and the default datetime format. (nothing for now)