Penelophant is RESTful auction service that provides modular auction types, payment gateways, and authentication systems.

• Python 2.7 or 3.3
• SQLAlchemy Compatible Database (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, etc.)

1. Duplicate the penelophant.config.DefaultConfig class and give it a name for your local config
2. Ensure your local config subclasses DefaultConfig
3. Create your virtualenv: virtualenv env
4. Enter your virtualenv: source env/bin/activate
5. Install packages: pip install -r requirements/dev.txt (pip3.3 or pip-3.3--whichever works)
6. Inititalize the database: python manage.py -c "penelophant.config.LocalConfig.LocalConfig" initdb (python3)
7. Run the server: python manage.py -c "penelophant.config.LocalConfig.LocalConfig" runserver (python3)
8. To exit your virtualenv when you are done: deactivate

This application can be installed directly to Heroku by switching to the heroku branch git checkout heroku. Then run heroku create and git push heroku heroku:master. You'll need to set some config settings using environment variables. The config keys to be set can be found in EnvConfig.py. You can use heroku config:set KEY=value to set these.

We are using the Apache Licence, version 2.0. For the full license text, please see the included LICENSE file.