CBA Server -- Server-side Application for the Cost Benefit Analysis Subsystem

1. Initial setup

This project requires:

• Python >= 3.6
• PostgreSQL >= 9.6
• pipenv for Python virtual environment management

1.1. Setup the database

Before setting the Django codebase, please make sure that you have the access to a PostgreSQL instance (either on our local machine or some remote server).

• Create a database cba_wb
• Make sure you have in your hands the details of username, password, host, and port of this database.

1.2. Setup the repo

• Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/orma/cba-server.git

• At the project directory root (i.e., cba-server), create an .env file and follow environment variables guide to set the values for all the variables.

• After that, run pipenv shell to activate the Python virtual environment for this project

• Then run pipenv install --dev to install all required dependencies for this project. You would need to occasionally run this command as you fetch new updates from this repository

• Then run python cba/manage.py migrate to run all latest database migrations

• Then run python cba/manage.py runserver to start the development server

• And voila! You've completed the neccessary steps to set up a local development environment for this project.