A simple web app for generating ransom messages using Python and web.py. An exercise in my quest to learn web programming.

Written during Hacker School, Batch[4], Fall 2012.

Sorry, I don't have it hosted anywhere, so to play with it you will have to run it on your local machine.

• Python and web.py
• a clone of this repo: git clone https://github.com/heyhuyen/ransomnote.git
• a sqlite3 database named scrapfont.db with the following table: CREATE TABLE letters(id integer primary key autoincrement, letter text not null, ext text not null);

From top directory, run python bin/app.pyand open up your browser to http://localhost:8080/

1. Type a letter into the textfield.
2. Select a file to upload.

Type your message in the textfield! Letters not found will display a rather ugly default image.

• uploading letters: auto-resize images
• uploading letters: in-browser image editing to select multiple characters
• uploading letters: auto-character detection would be really cool
• uploading letters: allow only single characters or provide a dropdown list
• making ransom note: allow punctuation and symbols: !, ?, ., etc.
• making ransom note: handle \n and allow text alignment
• save message to image format
• make it pretty

from Learn Python The Hard Way, Ex 52: "Before you run bin/app.py you need to change your PYTHONPATH environment variable."

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:.

For Windows PowerShell: $env:PYTHONPATH = "$env:PYTHONPATH;."