README.md

gpwahlomat

An application to help voters see which political parties are the best fit to their beliefs.

setup

1. Clone repo
2. cd to repo folder
3. pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Rename configcfg.txt to config.cfg and edit the contents.
5. to db create run follow commands in PSQL Commandline
6. create a user run CREATE USER wahlomat WITH Password 'wahlomat';
7. create a DB with owner wahlomat run CREATE DATABASE wahlomat OWNER wahlomat;
8. You will need a local postgresql install and to have a user named wahlomat, then run this: python db_create.py
9. python gpwahlomat/run.py

After doing this you will have a local database with the needed tables and the app can be reached at port 5000.

setup windows

0. install Visual C++ Build Tools from http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools
1. install Python3 for windows
2. install PostgreSQL from http://www.bigsql.org/postgresql/installers.jsp
3. Clone repo
4. cd to repo_folder
5. run pip install virtualenv as admin
6. cd repo_folder and virtualenv venv
7. change in virtual environment call venv\Scripts\activate.bat
8. pip install -r requirements.txt
9. Rename configcfg.txt to config.cfg and edit the contents.
10. to db create run follow commands in PSQL Commandline
11. create a user run CREATE USER wahlomat WITH Password 'wahlomat';
12. create a DB with owner wahlomat run CREATE DATABASE wahlomat OWNER wahlomat;
13. then run this python db_create.py
14. python gpwahlomat/run.py