how-to-run.md

How to Run the First Time

Assuming you have all the prerequisites and dependencies outlined in setup, we can proceed with making the virtual environemnt, populating it with required libraries, getting your local configuration working and starting up the app.

virtualenv

create a new virtual environment for this project:

• mkvirtualenv modernomad

this will usually cause you to "enter" the virtualenv automatically, as will be reflected by the prompt now prefixed with (modernomad). use the following commands to work with virtualenvwrapper: workon to work on a specific virtual env, pip install blah to install packages, lssitepackages to see packaged installed in the virtual env.

dependencies:

within the virtualenv, install the requirements. this is done with the following command, which should iterate through the items in the text file and install them one by one:

• pip install -r requirements.txt.

note that the stripe library requires custom arguments which the requirements.txt file parsing apparently doesn't support (as of november 2012), so install it manually on the command line using: pip install --index-url https://code.stripe.com --upgrade stripe

first time

create your own local_settings.py file from local_settings.example.py. inside the modernomad/modernomad directory, do the following:

• cp local_settings.example.py local_settings.py

the local_settings.py file contains configuration information for stripe (payment handling), and email. if you want to run the software on a production server, there are production-specific settings for email which you must setup if you want email to work. by default, the software is in "development" mode, and emails are sent using django's built-in console backend, meaning they get printed to the console.

• browse through settings.py. make note of the location of the media directory and media_url, and any other settings of interest.

go back into the top level repository directory and do the following:

• run ./manage.py syncdb to create and sync the models of installed apps (and create an admin user)
• run ./manage.py migrate to run the existing migrations (this will run migrations for all apps)

now you should be able to run the software:

• ./manage.py runserver [port]

the first time you run the software, you will want to configure two things in the admin interface. the software is designed to send various emails to users who are part of the group 'house_admins' so, before it will send any emails, you need to add at least one user to this group. login to the admin interface at localhost:port/admin (with the admin user credentials you supplied when you ran syncdb). click on 'users' and then any user (you probably only have one user right now). on the user page under 'groups' highlight the option 'house_admin', and then hit 'save.'

in the admin interface you should also define some rooms, since the reservation form presents a choice to users based on the rooms and rates defined here.

finally, set the value of the site variable so that full urls will have the correct domain. Go back to the home page of the admin interface, then click on 'sites' and then the first/only site that exists. edit the domain name to match the host and port you are running the software on.

Now you can go ahead and start creating content.

each time

• make sure rabbitmq is running, or start it: rabbitmq-server
• start celery beat (the scheduler for periodic tasks): celery beat (or some more sophisticated version of the same command, depending on your local or production setup), such as ./manage.py celeryd -v 2 -B -s celery -E -l INFO
• start django ./manage.py runserver domain port

model updates

see the instructions in updates for how to create and run database migrations if you add or remove fields from models.