Qiita web frontend based on a tornado-redis-celery setup with a login system, push notifications on celery jobs, and file uploads.

Programs

Python 2.7

redis-server 2.6.16

postgreSQL 9.3.0

IPython 1.1.0

Python libraries

tornado 3.1.1

redis 2.8.0

tornadoredis 2.4.15

celery 3.1.7

psycopg2 2.5.1

pyzmq 14.0.1 IMPORTANT: When installing pyzmq, make sure you install the system library as well. Install with the following pip command to get both the python and system library: pip install pyzmq --install-option="--zmq=bundled"

Add the base folder to your PYTHONPATH.

export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/QiiTa-pet/

Start the background daemons for redis-server and postgreSQL.

Start an IPython cluster:

ipcluster start -n 4

Start the celery workers from the qiita_pet folder:

celery -A app worker --concurrency 4

For the postgres database setup, follow the instructions in create_tables.sql

Start the webserver by running:

python webserver.py

Navigate to http://localhost:8888 and create a user/pass to log in with. Everything else should be self explanatory.

Websockets issue with Safari in non-localhost setting.