Toy Django application that runs the lakeriders-alert script as a background task, and offers some UI to display its results
- Refer to lakeriders-alert for the inner workings of the script, although here its code has been modified slightly to work as a task instead of as a CLI command.
- The Django app uses Celery beat to run the script periodically. This requires a broker to communicate with Django. Redis has been selected for the task.
The project has been set up with Poetry, so you can easily install dependencies in a virtual environment with
poetry shell
poetry install --no-root
Navigate to lakeridersalert_web from the root directory. Start your Redis server (the port is hardcoded at the moment), and the Django server.
redis-server --port 7777
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver
Create a Celery worker and start the Celery beat scheduler
python -m celery -A lakeridersalert_web worker -l info
python -m celery -A lakeridersalert_web beat -l info
Now you can navigate to the app main page {APP_URL} by adding /app to your local Django server address (typically http://localhost:8000/app/). If everything has gone alright you should see the sessions of the current week, together with a list of the last five alerts emitted. At {APP_URL}/db you can find the current state of the DB, while {APP_URL}/alerts contains a list of all emitted alerts.