Issues installing the Dev Environment

[werberger]

Hi all,

New to contribution to open source projects. New to code.

So please let me know if there is a more appropriate way to seek support with questions like this.

I have been assigned my first issue (#127 ) and in trying to set up my environment, I believe I've install poetry correctly, and created my local branch. Following the instructions I am stuck at running 'collectstatic'. I believe the issue is because the project is running Django = "^4.1" (according to the pyproject.toml) based on my reading here.

Assuming my understanding is correct, am I good to downgrade my Django for the purposes of working on my branch or is this an issue with the project?

If I am wrong in my understanding, any suggestions?

Again, please let me know how I should seek help like this if not here.

Cheers.

[brylie]

What is the error you see?

[werberger]

the error is:

Post-processing 'rest_framework\css\bootstrap-theme.min.css' failed!

I downgraded django to test and it allowed me to run collectstatic.

However, when I run the server I end up with only the navbar and footer on the pages. Not sure if this is another issue or one resulting from having downgraded django.

[brylie]

We've recently fixed several issues and updated our contributing guide. Please follow the most recent development instructions using the Poetry package manager.

Here is an example video showing the commands up to and including running the initial migrations:

Peek.2022-11-01.20-37.webm

[werberger]

Thanks, I was using it, but think I may have missed a step.

Now I've got it running but getting the following error when running the commands to populate initial data:

threads.Civi.linked_civis: (fields.W345) related_name has no effect on ManyToManyField with a symmetrical relationship, e.g. to "self".

I have found it mentioned as an issue for the project here... do you know where it's at or if there's a work around?

[brylie]

threads.Civi.linked_civis: (fields.W345) related_name has no effect on ManyToManyField with a symmetrical relationship, e.g. to "self".

That's just a warning, so feel free to ignore it.

[Nehemiah60]

I have also been facing some problems especially in running the project. For instance, when I try poetry install....the response is no dependencies to install. This I think might have a significant impact on running the project. It runs but the display is not really as intended.

[brylie]

From what directory are you running poetry install? Can you share a screen recording of the steps you take prior to running poetry install, such as ensuring the correct directory?