Backend system supporting collaborative restaurant recommendation app
Made as part of AT&T June 2016 Hackathon (NYC)
For iOS app associated with this backend, look here
Awarded 3rd place
Base URL: foodfight-app.herokuapp.com/
** For demo, running it locally due to Socket.IO issues on Heroku **
Run the following arguments to setup the virtual environment necessary to maintain packages
[sudo] pip install https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/tarball/develop # to update virtualenv
virtualenv venv # to create virtualenv Once the venv is created, you can activate it by running the following:
source venv/bin/activate Once you have activated venv, run the following to install all package requirements
pip install -r requirements.txtAt this point, if you run pip freeze, only packages in requirements.txt should be shown
For environment variable loading, we run autoenv
To set this up, run the following:
deactivate # if you're running your venv
pip install autoenv # to install if you haven't already installed it
touch .env The .env file is where you can declare environment variables specific to this app. These variables are loaded on cd-ing into the directory with the .env file. Your .env file should look like this.
export APP_SETTINGS="sample_settings_string"
export DATABASE_URL="postgresql://localhost/sample_db"
... Run the following:
mkdir -p data/db # to setup document directory for MongoDB
mongod --dbpath data/db