RoomEase

Current build status:

Built by Kaelyn Sackett

The Project

RoomEase is a web application designed to make living with roommates easier by:

• Keeping track of your house's bills, and allowing you to see which bills you have and have not paid your share of.
• Allowing you to send messages to your roommates via the house message board.
• Providing a calendar where you can view all of the open bills for your house.
• Automatically sending text reminders to roommates that have unpaid bills with approaching due dates.

Technologies Used

RoomEase is written in Python 2.7, JavaScript, SQLite3, and HTML5/CSS3 with the uses of Flask, Bootstrap.js, Moment.js, Verify.js, jQuery, AJAX/JSON, Jinja2, and SQLAlchemy. Twilio API used for automated test message reminders, FullCalendar API used for calendar view.

Environment

1. Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/kaesackett/RoomEase.git

2. Create and activate a virtual environment in the same directory:

$ pip install virtualenv
$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate 

3. Install the required packages using pip:

(env)$ pip install -r requirements.txt