This repository is being built as part of our class - Enterprise Architecture and Systems Integration -Batch:Spring 2018, Management Information Systems - University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The repository includes code to build a social networking website.

Collaborators to build this application by integrating Program Interfaces are -

• Narahari Sundaragopalan
• Vivek Bhat Hosmat
• Vaibhav Rahangdale
• Erdenebileg Bat-Erdene
• Deepika Jantz

• Create a virtual environment using the command

      virtualenv -p python3 <yourEnvNameHere>
  

  Do not push your local virtual environment to github repo. Create the virtual environment in a separate folder outside the repo

• Activate your virtual environment using

      source <pathToYourVirtualEnv>/bin/activate

• Install Packages using

      pip -r requirements.txt

*If you have new packages to install, add them in the requirements.txt file and push that file to the repo*

• Run the migrations using below command from the root folder of your repo

      python manage.py migrate

• To access the application on http://localhost

      python manage.py runserver

Another alternative to virtual environment is using Docker containers. See below instructions for setup

• From the root directory, run the following command to create a persistent storage for postgres database container. This way the data will persist and we don't have to run django migrations and create a superuser every time we work on it. docker volume create --name postgres-data

• Once the volume is created, you can start the Docker containers using

    docker-compose up -d

• Once the containers are running, to run the database migrations, use the command

      docker-compose run web python manage.py migrate

• To create a super user, use

      docker-compose run web python manage.py createsuperuser

• If you do not want to run your Docker containers all the time, you can stop the containers using

      docker-compose down

When you need to run any command with manage.py during development, you need to preface the python manage.py [command] with docker-compose run web. This tells Docker to run the command on the web container, which is our main Django App container