maidstone-hackspace

Repository for the maidstone hackspace website

Status

To get started checkout the project to your machine.

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

To suggest changes to the site hit the fork button on the github page, then make your changes in your own branch when your ready push your changes to your github account and create a pull request back into the main branch where it can be reviewed and merged if everything is okay.

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.

docker-compose up 

docker volume create --name sockets
docker run -it -v /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/:/etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/ -v /var/www:/var/www -v sockets:/data/sockets --name mhackspace olymk2/mhackspace

If you plan on making large changes consider discussing it first so you dont waste your own time.

Generating static content

Most of the content is generated statically to avoid hitting a database on each request.

To generate static content you can run the code below.

python generate.py

Testing the payment systems

Both paypal and gocardless clearly show that you are using the sandbox in the url.

for paypal you can use this email and password

email = contact-buyer@maidstone-hackspace.org.uk
password = Mhackspace

To test the gocardless integration you can use these card details

sortcode = 200000
account number = 55779911

Run locally with uwsgi on port 9090

uwsgi --plugins python --http-socket :9090 -w wsgi

Run locally with flask

python index.py

Developers recommendations

To run the tests you can use one of the following

nose2
python -m unittest discover

run this in the root to setup pre commit checks, it will run unit tests and check code

ln -s developers/pre-commit.sh .git/hooks/pre-commit