johnjczhou / fle-home

The FLE Homepage

FLE Site

This is the code for the Foundation for Learning Equality's homepage: https://learningequality.org

Environment Setup

1. Install requirements:

   • install pip if you don't have it already.
   • install virtualenvwrapper: pip install virtualenvwrapper

2. Get the codebase: git clone [email protected]:fle-internal/fle-home.git

3. Make a virtualenv to install dependencies:

   • cd <dir_name>
   • mkvirtualenv <desired_virtualenv_name>
   • *Linux users: To get the mkvirtualenv command to work, you may have to add: source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh to your .bashrc file (and restart bash). You may also have to run: sudo apt-get install python-dev in order to be able to use pip inside the virtualenv.

4. Install the dependencies listed in requirements.txt: pip install -r requirements.txt

   • *Windows users: You may run into an error "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat" when trying to install Pillow. If this occurs, delete the Pillow requirement from requirements.txt and run easy_install pillow after all other requirements have installed.

5. Create a local_settings.py file as a sibling to the settings.py file. Inside, set DEBUG = True (so static files will load in dev mode).

6. Set up the database: python manage.py syncdb --migrate

7. Run the server: python manage.py runserver

Final notes:

• When you're done, you can cancel the virutalenv with the command: deactivate
• The map requires certain data files to use, and you will get an error if you try and view it at /map/ because they haven't been included in the repo.
• The blog won't work until you add at least one post to it. (needs fixing up...)

Dev

• Check out the Issues page for known issues.
• Use the Wiki for style guide references. If there are none there, it means Dylan was a little overzealous.