Red Cross Volunteer Registry

A django webapp to handle volunteers at Indian Red Cross.

This webapp has only been tested on Ubuntu 16.04. It is compatible with python 2.7 and python 3.4+.

Deploying on Heroku

Required environment variables

• SECRET_KEY: This will be used as django.conf.settings.SECRET_KEY.
• HEROKU: Set this variable to any value. The presence of this environment variable makes django use settings appropriate for Heroku.

Setup instructions

1. Create a heroku app.
2. Setup environment variables as specified above.
3. Push code to heroku app.
4. Run a one-off dyno (using heroku run bash) and run these commands on it:
   • python manage.py migrate.
   • python createsuperuser. Now fill out details of the superuser.
   • Optionally run scripts/load_all_locs.py or scripts/load_locations.py to load location data. See sample_data/ for an example of location files.

Deploying locally for testing

For setting up a development environment, you must install the required dependencies. It is recommended to use a virtualenv.

Quick start

pip install -r requirements/dev.txt.
python manage.py migrate
python createsuperuser
python scripts/load_all_locs.py sample_data
python manage.py runserver

Now go to http://localhost:8000/admin/ to check out your webapp.

Settings

Settings can be found in project_conf/settings/:

• heroku.py contains settings to run the webapp on Heroku.
• default.py contains settings to run the development environment.
• __init__.py contains the common settings.

If you want to override settings, it is recommended to copy default.py to a new file local.py and make changes there, to avoid messing things up.

We use SQLite by default for development and testing. You can change settings to use something else.

We use whitenoise to serve static assets.

Directory structure

• devel - Tools to help with development and testing.
• lib - Useful reusable code.
• main - The main django app.
• mysite - locale data.
• project_conf - Project settings. Also contains root urlconf and wsgi.py.
• requirements - Project requirements for dev and heroku.
• sample_data - Sample csv files containing location data. These can be used with scripts/load_all_locs.py and scripts/load_locations.py.
• scripts - Scripts useful in both development and production.
• stubs - mypy stubs for django. Useful for type checking.

Automated testing

• mypy - static type checker for python. First do pip install -r requirements/mypy.txt. Then use it from devel/run_mypy.py. It only works on python 3.
• pyflakes - linter and static checker. Use it from devel/lint_all.py. devel/lint-all.py also uses a custom linter.
• python manage.py test - django backend tests.

We also have a .travis.yml to run tests automatically on Travis CI. The travis helper scripts are located in devel/travis/.