README

0. Learn some Python

1. Create a database containing apps and reviews of apps

   a. Design the structure of the database b. Implement

2. Create a webpage that interacts with and shows the contents of the database, using Django

3. Populate the database with apps found by searching the internet for health-related apps

You need to install Flask, pg8000, and other libraries in the 'requirements.txt' file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

If you don't want to do this in your own environment, you can do it in a virtual environment:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
## to deactivate the virtual environment,
## just type 'deactivate' (without quotes)

These instructions help to deploy in Git.

There is an issue with storing passwords in a configuration file -- you can't just add files to your Heroku repo, you are supposed to use environment variables. To add an environment variable to Heroku:

heroku config:set DATABASE=<database value>
heroku config:set HOST=<host value (ec2-something.amazon.com)>
heroku config:set PORT=5432
heroku config:set USER=<user name>
heroku config:set PASSWORD=<password>

And then restart:

heroku restart

To look at the logs while the app is running:

heroku logs --tail

Phone calls / Skype every other [[Saturday at 10am?]]

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Thursday 8 January ChiPy Talk -- just 3 slides or so, unless you want more

We will use heroku's default Postgresql database (currently 9.3)

We will host on heroku (which launches an Amazon Web Services instance)