hackspace/README.org

• Maidstone Hackspace website
  • Requirements
  • Setup
    • Start your new containers containing a database and django
    • Run migrations and setup admin user
  • Migrations / Managing default data

Maidstone Hackspace website

Repository for the maidstone hackspace website

Requirements

Before getting started make sure you have git, docker and docker-compose installed on your machine. The simplest way to setup this site is to use docker-compose so please install that from this site https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/ and make sure the quick start guide works https://docs.docker.com/machine/get-started/ then you can use the commands below to test and make changes.

Setup

To get started checkout the project to your machine.

git clone https://github.com/olymk2/maidstone-hackspace.git

Once checked out build your containers locally you only need to do this when first start or if requirements change.

docker-compose -fdev.yml build

Start your new containers containing a database and django

docker-compose -fdev up

Test django is serving pages http://127.0.0.1:8180

Run migrations and setup admin user

To run django commands just prefix them with docker-compose -f dev.yml run django

docker-compose -f dev.yml run django python manage.py makemigrations
docker-compose -f dev.yml run django python manage.py migrate

Creating an admin user

docker-compose -f dev.yml run django python manage.py createsuperuser

Migrations / Managing default data

If you want to export some data you entered into the admin area you can use dumpdata and loaddata to export and import.

docker-compose -fdev.yml run django python manage.py dumpdata feeds > mhackspace/feeds/fixtures/defaults.json
docker-compose -fdev.yml run django python manage.py loaddata mhackspace/feeds/fixtures/defaults.json