The codebase for the iggmarathon.com 2016 site rewrite. (At the time of writing this README, I'm uploading what I've built so far so we can have a framework to start building and collaborating on.)

First, make sure you have Python 2. If you're not on Windows, you probably already have it.

Next, you'll probably want to set up a virtual environment so you don't pollute your global libraries. There are many ways to go about this; I really like virtualenvwrapper and mkvirtualenv.

Got that working? Install all of the libraries: pip install -r requirements.txt. (Incidentally, if you need to add a library to the project in the future, that's where it goes.)

Yay, now you have libraries! We do all our database stuff with Alembic, which probably deserves its own little section, so:

TL;DR: alembic upgrade head, ./manage.py prepopulate

If you haven't done anything else, first you'll need to actually make your database.

alembic upgrade head updates your database schema to the latest version. Run this any time the schema gets updated, and Alembic will handle adding and dropping tables and columns.

Have a current database schema? You can do a few things from here: ./manage.py prepopulate adds some sample data to the database. Wanna change what sample data that is? Modify prepopulate_database() in src/data/prepopulate.py.

Want to make schema changes? alembic revision -m 'descriptive message about the change', then modify the file that Alembic creates to make your changes.

Want to just run the server? ./manage.py runserver, visit localhost:5000 in your browser of choice.

• All of the models are, predictably, in data/models. To make a new Foo and save it to the database: Foo.create(...)
• All of the HTML is in web/templates. Flask is opinionated about its templating and expects jinja2.
• Route implementations are in web/views. The actual wiring of the routes happens in web/routes.py, should you want to add a new route.
• Configuration is in settings.py. You can read any setting by importing app_config from settings, which is just a dictionary of every config option. DO NOT ADD PRIVATE KEYS OR PASSWORDS TO THINGS TO THIS FILE, THAT WOULD BE VERY SAD.

There are actually unit tests! That's neat!

Running them is simple: just run py.test from the root directory.

The minimal amount necessary to have Flask-Mail send an email is this:

from flask.ext.mail import Message
from ...web.extensions import mail

msg = Message('test subject', recipients=['dan@example.com'])
msg.body = 'text body'
msg.html = '<b>HTML</b> body'
mail.send(msg)