Notifications Creator

A small (emulated) utility for scheduling and tracking notifications using Django.

Project setup

Install pip, virtualenv, rabbitmq-server
Setup database:
- Login to the root user using mysql shell.
- Create database as follows:
  
  CREATE DATABASE notification_creator;
- Create a new user:
  
  CREATE USER 'ns-admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '%password%';
- Grant permissions to user:
  
  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON notification_creator.* TO 'ns-admin'@'localhost';
- Select the database using:
  
  USE notification_creator;
Create a file named dev.py or production.py in the notification_sender/settings directory and copy variables from base.py which need to be modified.
Add the following line to your .bashrc or .zshrc or equivalent shell configuration file:

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE="notification_creator.settings.dev"
Load the new settings in your shell using source ~/.zshrc or source ~/.bashrc.
Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt
Migrate the database:

python manage.py migrate
Run the test cases:

python manage.py test
Run the Celery worker:

celery -A notification_creator worker -l info
Check the setup using the following command:

python manage.py runserver