BookBay is CSC322 Software Engineering project for The City College of New York. BookBay is a web application designed using Flask and SQL Alchemy where users can buy and sell books. The web application was designed to support various featurs like ratings, comments, user administration, user profiles and a system for earning points.

if you choose to install virtualenv in hidden folder, do this

Any DB issues:

Since i should be updating db models quite a few times, the best way(from experience without errors) to get most recent copy of DB is to

1. log in to mysql

mysql> DROP DATABASE softeng;
mysql> CREATE DATABASE softeng;

then in the project directory

$ rm -r db_repository

then run

$ python db_create

these steps should ensure that you get a clean version of the database. when only small changes to the model are made, running db_migrate && db_upgrade should be sufficient

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute .env && source .env/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt

source .env/bin/activate

deactivate

#setting etting up mysql

access your mysql database

$ mysql -u root -p

then, setup database parameters:

mysql> create database softeng character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;

mysql> create user 'softeng'@'localhost' identified by 'softeng';

password is now set as 'softeng'

mysql> grant all privileges on softeng.* to 'softeng'@'localhost';

mysql> flush privileges;

for simplicity sake, the username and pw = softeng softeng After this, you can run python db_create

After you completed the above steps, go to project directory and run the server:

$ python runserver.py

If your views.py contains no errors, you should be able to access your web application by typing the address http://127.0.0.1:5000 in your browser's address bar.