contacts_api/README.md

Deployment Instructions

Local Installation

Create Local Repo

• Fork this repo and then clone the fork to your local computer
• Make sure you are using a venv python environment
  • e.g. source ~/ga-env/bin/active
  • create a new environment and use that
• Install dependencies with python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Postgres

• Open app Postgres App
• From menu icon, next to "New Server", choose "Start" and then "Open Postgres"
• Double click on a sub-database and, in the terminal window that opens, run CREATE DATABASE django_contacts to create the sub database

In Terminal

• Run python manage.py migrate to set up the tables in the DB
• Run python manage.py runserver to start the server

Deploy to Heroku

• Run heroku create to create heroku app
• Copy url of heroku app created (e.g. blooming-fjord-06511.herokuapp.com) and add it to ALLOWED_HOSTS in django_rest_api/settings.py e.g. ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['localhost', 'desolate-thicket-29906.herokuapp.com']
• add/commit to git. Then run git push heroku master
• run heroku run bash to enter bash and then run python manage.py migrate and python manage.py createsuperuser (follow prompts) and then exit