(see http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/installation)

Clone the project from GitHub:

$ git clone zqfa-platform

Install virtualenv in order to be able to install the needed packages in an isolated environment to not infer with existing packages:

$ sudo pip install virtualenv

Setup the virtualenv in the project directory:

$ virtualenv venv
New python executable in venv/bin/python
Installing distribute............done.

And activate it and download the required packages:

$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

(Preliminary: Install the Heroku Toolbelt)

The best way to install ZQFA on your local computer is as virtual environment.

Install virtualenv:

$ sudo easy_install virtualenv

Create the virtual environment in the zqfa directory and activate it:

$ virtualenv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate

Install requirements in the virtualenv:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup the needed config vars by copying them from production:

$ heroku plugins:install git://github.com/ddollar/heroku-config.git
$ heroku config:pull --overwrite --interactive

Change the config vars in .env to your local setup (you probably want to use a differnt database).

Start the app:

$ foreman start

alembic is used to manage changes to database files and the DB.

First do the changes to the model files.

Creating the migration script with alembic:

$ alembic revision -m "create unique index on industry.name" 

And finally deploy the changes to the database

$ alembic upgrade head

We use a free Heroku instance which is linked to the official domain (www.zqfa.ch).