Mines ACM Student Chapter Website

acm.mines.edu

This is the website for the Colorado School of Mines' local chapter for the Association for Computing Machinery.

It is written in Python and uses the powerful web framework TurboGears.

Setting up your Development Environment

Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/ColoradoSchoolOfMines/acm-website.git

To install in user's personal path (~/.local)

Install the application and its dependencies:

$ pip install -e . --user

If you do not have gearbox installed:

$ pip install --user tg.devtools

Setup the application:

$ cp development.ini.sample development.ini
$ gearbox setup-app

Finally, serve the application:

$ gearbox serve --reload --debug

To use a virtual environment

Use a virtual environment if you do not want to install the needed Python packages into ~/.local

If you're unfamiliar with Python virtual environments:

• https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/
• https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Make sure you have virtualenvwrapper installed

On Arch Linux:

$ sudo pacman -S python-virtualenvwrapper

Make a virtual environment:

$ mkvirtualenv acm-website

Activate the virtual environment:

$ workon acm-website

Install the application and its dependencies:

$ pip install -e .

If you do not have gearbox installed:

$ pip install tg.devtools

Setup the application:

$ cp development.ini.sample development.ini
$ gearbox setup-app

Finally, serve the application:

$ gearbox serve --reload --debug

When you're finished working on the project and want to exit the virtual environment:

$ deactivate