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House keeping

Work on your own branch and consistently pull to ensure you are up to date

Installation requirments:

Django 1.8
virtual ENV

Installation

Start virtual invironment

Create and activate your virtual envoronment (I called mine skillshare) inside your approproate directory

$ virtualenv . $ source bin/activate

Install Django into virtual environment

(skillshare)$ pip install virtualenvwrapper
(skillshare)$ pip install django==1.8
(skillshare)$ pip install --upgrade django-registration
(skillshare)$ pip install django-crispy-forms==1.7.0
(skillshare)$ pip install django-registration-redux==1.8
(skillshare)$ pip install djangorestframework==2.4.8

Clone beacon from github repo
Install relevant packages I believe the following should install all uninstalled apps

$ python manage.py syncdb  // similar to migrate but also allows the creation of a superuser

Running project

In your virtual environment folder (where manage.py is located), run the server (skillshare)$ python manage.py runserver

Userfull commands

$ pip freeze // checkout what is installed in current environment when running pip freeze from your virtualenv folder you should see something like this

(skillshare)$ pipfreeze
confusable-homoglyphs==2.0.2
Django==1.8
django-crispy-forms==1.7.0
django-registration==2.3
django-registration-redux==1.8
pbr==3.1.1
pytz==2017.2
six==1.10.0
stevedore==1.25.0
virtualenv==15.1.0
virtualenv-clone==0.2.6
virtualenvwrapper==4.7.2

$ python manage.py migrate // syncronyses unmigrated apps to DB

Your base directory should look like the following

 ── skillshare (virtual environment folder)
    ├── bin
    ├── include
    ├── lib
    ├── skillshare
    ├── src (project pacakge from github)
    │   ├── beacon_landing
    │   └── signups
    └── static
        ├── media
        ├── static
        ├── static-only
        └── templates

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