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Purpose

This project is a simple web-coding interface for reddit threads. It was built with a very short lead-time to support research, and thus should be considered extremely pre-alpha. (This means it's hideous, both in terms of appearance and very likely programming design. )

Development deployment

1. Create virtualenv a. Using virtualenvhelper, type mkvirtualenv reddit_coding

2. Install required python packages. For development environment, this means: pip install -r requirements/dev.txt . If you get errors in this step, make sure your system is set up with all the required system packages.

3. Create a dev.py file in reddit_coding/settings/ a. The first line should be: from base import * b. Add custom settings for dev environment in here. These include i. SECRET_KEY ii. DEBUG = TRUE iii. DATABASES = { ... } You can generate a new secret key with a oneliner like this: ```python -c "import random,string;print 'SECRET_KEY="%s"'%''.join([random.SystemRandom().choice("{}{}{}".format(string.ascii_letters, string.digits, string.punctuation)) for i in range(63)])"

4. Add this environment to the postactivate file in your virtual env. If your virtualenv is active, you can find the file in the same directory as the python binary using which python. It's probably something like ~/envs/reddit_coding/bin/postactivate. The line should be export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE="reddit_coding.settings.dev". After you do this, you'll need to reactivate your virtualenv by typing deactivate and workong reddit_coding again.

5. Install node, bower, and gulp. a. On Ubuntu type, follow these instructions. Also, you'll probably want to also install nodejs-legacy. sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy so that the symlink to node is installed. b. Install bower. sudo npm install -g bower c. Install gulp. sudo npm install -g gulp

6. Install all the bower files. bower install

7. Use gulp to copy distribution files over. gulp

8. python manage.py collectstatic

9. python manage.py migrate

Resuming work

1. Activate the virtualenv. Type workon reddit_coding
2. cd into project directory