Zues

Zues is a Django-based web application developed for the Jonge Democraten. The JD regularly organizes political conferences. Members can send proposals to the conference teams using this web application.

Setup

Prerequisites

MacOS:

1. Have Xcode command-line tools installed. xcode-select --install
2. Install dependencies
   1. Make sure you have Python 3 installed. brew install python MacOS comes with Python 2.7 by default.
   2. Install virtualenv. brew install virtualenv
   3. Install mysql. brew install mysql

Main

1. Use scripts/build_env.sh to setup an environment.
2. source env/bin/activate to activate the environment.
3. Run python scripts/bootstrap.py.
4. Add additional configuration in zuessite/local_settings.py.
5. Run make run.
6. Run make init.

Note that the server actually requires https

Using HTTPS for development environment

1. pip install django-extensions Werkzeug pyOpenSSL
2. Edit zuessite/local_settings.py to add django_extensions to INSTALLED_APPS.
3. Make an SSL certificate, e.g. with openssl and some filename like foobar.cert
4. Use python manage.py runserver_plus --cert foobar.cert

DB Schema

SQlite 3 DB schema