Chandler/planet_app

Welcome to Planet App, a restful backend for managing users and groups See specification.md for availiable features

run all commands from the root of the project.

setup

for best results, create a python virtualenv before installing the dependencies and running the app. A very useful project for setting up virtual env is https://github.com/brainsik/virtualenv-burrito

> mkvirtualenv planet_app
> pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

quickstart

> python utils/create_tables.py planet.db
> python app/planet_app.py

create a user and then fetch that user

> curl -X POST -d '{"first_name": "christine", "last_name": "donovan", "userid": "cdonovan", "groups": ["photoclub", "bikeclub"]}' http://127.0.0.1:5000/users
> curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/users/cdonovan

run tests, everything in specification.md is validated here.

> python tests/integration_tests.py

set a custom database file

> export DATABASE=staging.db; python app/planet_app.py

rebuild a database

> rm planet.db
> python utils/create_tables.py planet.db