VGG Interview Test

This repository houses the code for the VGG Interview scheduling App - A Django application for interview scheduling that applies the CRUD functionalities, the system should have two accounts, one for the interviewer and one for candidate.

Retrieve code

$ git clone https://github.com/madewithkode/vgg_test.git

Requrements

This project requires the following system dependencies:

Python 3.9
PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
Virtualenv(Recommended)

Setup

Database

Create a PostgresSQL database following the configurations on src/vgg_interview/settings/dev.py

$ sudo -u postgres psql

postgres=# create database <database_name>;

postgres=# create user <user_name> with encrypted password '<password>';

postgres=# grant all privileges on database <database_name> to <user_name>;

Environment Variables

This project requires a .env file with the following variables, please create one in the project's root folder and supply the relevant credentials.

DEBUG
SECRET_KEY
DATABASE_HOST
DATABASE_NAME
DATABASE_USERNAME
DATABASE_PASSWORD
BROKER_URL

Running

$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.9 virtualenv - While in the project root, run this to create a virtual environment named virtualenv
$ pip install requirements.txt - While in the project root, run this to install all external packages required to run project.
Cd into src folder and run $ python manage.py migrate This applies the project's migration(if any)
While still in src folder, run $ python manage.py runserver This should now start the django app at the default localhost:8000
run celery -A vgg_interview.settings.celery.CELERY beat -l info in a new terminal inside src folder to start celery beat for periodic tasks.