roche

Web app for asynchronous roching

Start from the beginning

• Set up DigitalOcean server
• Create user
• Set up ssh keys
• Install Python + PIP

Booting up

• If it doesn't exist already: pyvenv roche_env
• source roche_env/bin/active
• (deactivate to escape)

Adding packages

• Note: install these while in the venv!
• python-decouple
• django-sendgrid-v5
• django-twilio
• phonenumbers (dependency for django-twilio that doesn't automatically come with it)

Starting Django

• Make sure to add 0.0.0.0 and your domain to ALLOWED_HOSTS in settings.py
• `python manage.py runserver 0:8000

Editing Django settings

• Set time zone in roche/settings.py
• Create admin (python manage.py createsuperuser)
• Add environment variables to .env in root directory
• Edit settings.py to change or add environment variables: LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL, EMAIL_BACKEND, SENDGRID_API_KEY, DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL

Adding apps

• Add to INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file for the project (not any one of the apps)
• Add appname.apps.AppnameConfig (substitute in the real app's name for appname/Appname)
• Add django_twilio

django-twilio

• Need to pip install two other packages: phonenumbers and wheel
• Add export TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=xxx and export TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=yyy to /bin/activate.sh of the virtual environment (while in the virtual environment)