• Rapid Router is a Code for Life project, aimed at teaching primary-school children programming concepts through a vehicle routing game. Ocado Technology's Code for Life initiative has been developed to inspire the next generation of computer scientists and to help teachers deliver the computing curriculum.
• This repository hosts the source code of the Rapid Router game.
• The other repos for Code For Life:
  • the main portal (as well as registration, dashboards, materials...), Code For Life Portal
  • the new game for teenagers, currently at a very early stage
  • the deployment code for Google App Engine

Go to the official Code For Life website.

• Install prerequisites. E.g. on Ubuntu / Linux Mint:

  • sudo apt-get install git
  • sudo apt-get install python-dev
  • sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper
  • sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev
  • sudo apt-get install ruby2.0 - still Ruby 1.9 hiding under ruby command.
  • sudo gem install sass -v 3.3.4 - later versions incompatible with Ruby 1.9 (see above).

• Clone the repo: https://github.com/ocadotechnology/rapid-router.git

• Make and activate a virtualenv

  • e.g. the first time, mkvirtualenv -a path/to/rapid-router rapid-router
  • and thereafter workon rapid-router
  • NOTE: If you have trouble running these commands (e.g. Command not found: workon), refer to this article, the top answer should help you resolve them.

• ./run in your rapid-router directory - This will:

  • install all of the dependencies using pip
  • sync the database
  • collect the static files
  • run the server

• Once you see Quit the server with CONTROL-C, you can open the portal in your browser at localhost:8000.

• If you have problems seeing the portal on machines with different locale (e.g. Polish), check the terminal for errors mentioning ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8. If you see them, you need to have environment variables LANG and LC_ALL both set to en_US.UTF-8.

  • Either export them in your .bashrc or .bash_profile
  • or restart the portal with command LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ./run.

• ./run --with-translation-tools in your rapid-router dir to include the translation/localisation libraries
• You will need your crowdin api key locally in the CROWDIN_API_KEY environment variable, e.g. export CROWDIN_API_KEY=<key>. This can be obtained from the settings page
• Set your django_language cookie to lol-us to enable in-context localisation

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