/action_proj

Primary LanguagePython

Objective

Create a Django project with an action-tracking application. The goal of the application is to store/manage actions. A user should be able to create, change, and delete actions. Actions can be assigned to any user. Actions should have at least a title and a description, and they should be capable of being displayed as a group in some fashion relative to the current month.

Setup

Development

I like virtualenvwrapper, if you prefer virtualenv feel free to use that in steps 1 and 2.

  1. Create virutalenv: mkvirtualenv actions
  2. Activate the virtualenv: workon actions
  3. Non-production settings use SQLite, so no database setup is required. You just need to run the migrations: ./manage.py migrate
  4. Create a new superuser (follow the prompts): manage.py createsuperuser
  5. Start it up: ./manage.py runserver

Production

TBD

Notes

  • You'll need to create additional users via the admin, /admin/ if you want to test assigning to other users.

  • I initially implemented this completely via the admin, because I scaffolds a CRUD interface immediately. However, I realized the implementation and amount of work was pretty minimal.

    While this might be good enough for an informal, internal tool, it's not likely what a customer would like to use. In order to flesh the project out I implemented my own CRUD with Django generics CBV's and Bootstrap.

    In the process, however, I did forget to re-use the sort/group by month feature that I implemented from the admin (actions.admin.DueByFilter). I'll be fixing that shortly.

  • I developed against SQLite locally, out of expediency. However, one of the migrations had a problem when being run against a PostgreSQL database on Heroku. So, all of the Heroku integration bits are there, however the current site is not working (https://shrouded-wildwood-67165.herokuapp.com/), because migrations have not been successfully run yet.

I'll be finishing that shortly as well.