goldmanm / rmg-website

A Django-powered website for Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG)

RMG Website - A Django-powered website for RMG

Authors: Prof. William H. Green ([email protected]),

Prof. Richard H. West ([email protected]), and the RMG Team ([email protected])

This repository contains the source code that powers the RMG website, which runs at http://rmg.mit.edu/. The RMG website itself uses the Django web framework.

User Setup

If you only wish to use the RMG website, no setup is required! Simply point your favorite web browser to http://rmg.mit.edu/ to get started. Some parts of the web site require that Javascript be enabled.

Developer Setup

The dependencies required to develop the RMG website are:

Django (http://www.djangoproject.com/)

Version 1.3.0 or later is required.

1.5.0 or later is recommended.

RMG-Py (http://github.com/ReactionMechanismGenerator/RMG-Py)

Development of the website closely mirrors that of RMG-Py, and in general you will need to checkout and update the RMG-Py repository whenever you update this repository.

Pydot (http://code.google.com/p/pydot/)

This can be installed via pip install pydot (or easy_install pydot).

Once you have successfully installed the above dependencies, fork and/or clone the git repository to your machine. At this point you will need a few more dependencies:

jQuery (http://jquery.com/)

Version 1.4.0 or later is recommended. For development you probably want the development (uncompressed) version. For a production environment you will want the minified and gzipped version. This file should be placed in the rmgweb/media folder.

jsMath (http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/)

Version 3.5 or later is recommended. These files should be placed in the rmgweb/media/jsMath folder. You will also need to either download and install the TeX fonts (recommended) or the jsMath image fonts in order to see the formulas properly in your web browser.

Highcharts (http://www.highcharts.com/)

This should live in a rmgweb/media/Highcharts folder.

In order to get the web server running, you must first create a secret key for Django. This key should be placed in the file rmgweb/secretsettings.py. An example of such a file, rmgweb/secretsettings.py.example, is available. The easiest way to generate a secret key is to initialize a dummy Django project and copy its secret key from the settings.py file, or visit a site such as http://www.miniwebtool.com/django-secret-key-generator/. If you are only developing locally, then you can simply move the rmgweb/secretsettings.py.example file to rmgweb/secretsettings.py; however, in production environments you are strongly urged to use a custom key.

Once the secret key is setup, you can start the development server to test the website locally. To do this:

$ cd rmgweb
$ python manage.py syncdb
$ python manage.py runserver

The syncdb command may prompt you to create a superuser account, which you must do in order to develop in portions of the website that require user authentication.

Then navigate in your favorite web browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/. The website may take some time to load at first, as the RMG database must be loaded from disk every time the web server is restarted.

License

The RMG website codebase is available under the terms of the MIT/X11 license, reproduced below:

Copyright (c) 2011 William H. Green and the RMG Team

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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