##Blog post aggregator for the Hacker School community.

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###Contribute

Want to practice working on web apps? Check out Contribute.md for some feature ideas.

###Installation:

• Set up your virtual environment

• Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Set up your database. Install Postgres (it's easy on OSX with postgres.app) and open a Postgres shell:

python manage.py dbshell

Create your database:

CREATE DATABASE blaggregator_dev;

The semicolon is critical. Then go back to bash and populate the database from the app's models. IMPORTANT: when you are creating your admin account, don't use the same email address as your Hacker School account or you won't be able to create a user account for yourself. Do [email protected] or something.

python manage.py syncdb

If you get this error:

OperationalError: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Then open settings.py and under HOST: add /tmp.

• Turn on debugging in your environment:

export DJANGO_DEBUG=True

• Then run a local server:

python manage.py runserver

You can administer your app through the handy-dandy admin interface. You can be logged in as the admin or as your user account, but not both at the same time.

###Encountered errors on Ubuntu 12.10:

• If you get either of these errors:

- Error: pg_config executable not found.

- ./psycopg/psycopg.h:30:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory

Do the following:

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

• If you run into trouble with the Django installation within requirements.txt, install Django via:

pip install django

• If you recieve:

No module named psycopg2.extensions:

Do:

sudo apt-get build-dep python-psycopg2

Then:

pip install psycopg2

Note: running pip install -r requirements.txt might be neccesarry after running any of the above commands.

• For postgres installation:

sudo apt-get install postgresql

• The following creates a super user:

- sudo -u postgres psql postgres 
- \password postgres

• The following creates new database called blaggregator_dev

sudo -u postgres createdb blaggregator_dev

• To set up other postgres user accounts do:

- create user user_name 
- \password user_name

• Then open settings.py and under USER: put the newly created user name, under PASSWORD: put the password of the user

• Then run your local server

python manage.py dbshell