The idea of this project is to make a web-based front-end to PopIt for crowd-sourcing candidates who are standing in the next UK general election in 2015.
This is pretty functional now - we're testing with small numbers of users at the moment, but will make it more widely available soon.
You can find a list of known issues to work on here:
These are prioritized in Huboard:
(These are very rough instructions, written for a colleague who who's using Vagrant v1 for local development.)
Make a new directory, change into that directory and create a
Vagrantfile with:
vagrant init precise64
Edit the Vagrantfile to forward a local port to the port that the development server will be listening to, by adding this line:
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 8000, host: 8080
... in the Vagrant.configure block.
Start that vagrant box with:
vagrant up
Log in to the box with:
vagrant ssh
Install git, which you'll need to clone the repository:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
Clone the repository with:
git clone --recursive <REPOSITORY-URL>
Copy the example configuration file to conf/general.yml:
cp yournextmp-popit/conf/general.yml{-example,}
Edit yournextmp-popit/conf/general.yml to fill in details of
the PopIt instance you're using.
If that instance hasn't already been set up, then you can create
basic data in it with the create-popit.py script. (FIXME: add
more instructions for this.)
Install some required packages:
sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv curl yui-compressor \
python-dev libpq-dev
Create a virtualenv with all the Python packages you'll need:
yournextmp-popit/bin/pre-deploy
Edit the .bashrc to make the gems that has installed available
and the virtualenv be activated on login. Add these lines to the
end of ~/.bashrc:
export PATH="/home/vagrant/gems/bin:$PATH"
export GEM_HOME='/home/vagrant/gems'
source ~/venv/bin/activate
Now source your .bashrc for those changes to take effect:
source ~/.bashrc
Create the database tables:
cd yournextmp-popit
./manage.py syncdb
Add a superuser account:
./manage.py createsuperuser
Run the development server:
./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Now you should be able to see the site at:
http://localhost:8080/
Go to the admin interface:
http://localhost:8080/admin/
... and login with the superuser account.
After logging in again, the only steps you should need to run the development server again are:
cd yournextmp-popit
./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000