chachara's Introduction

chachara

a small picoblogging webapp using flask/gae/pubsubhubbub

gae can be changed for any other hosting as long as model.py is implemented for that backend.

clone:

git clone https://github.com/marianoguerra/chachara.git

setup:

cd chachara
# init virtualenv
virtualenv --distribute chachara 
# activate virtualenv
cd chachara
source bin/activate

install dependencies:

pip install --ignore-installed -t . -r requirements.txt

create a settings module, base on this one, change the things between <>:

import os

DEBUG = os.environ.get('SERVER_SOFTWARE', 'Dev').startswith('Dev')
SECRET_KEY = '<secret key here>'
SALT = '<salt here>'
MAX_USERS = 5

if DEBUG:
    HUB_URL = "http://localhost:8082/"
else:
    HUB_URL = "http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"

start server:

path/to/google_appengine/dev_appserver.py . -p 8080 --datastore_path=/tmp/chachara8080
# start other if you want
path/to/google_appengine/dev_appserver.py . -p 8081 --datastore_path=/tmp/chachara8081

open your browser and go to http://localhost:8080/

get pubsubhubbub server:

svn checkout http://pubsubhubbub.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pubsubhubbub

start it:

path/to/google_appengine/dev_appserver.py pubsubhubbub/hub/ -p 8082 --datastore_path=/tmp/pshb8082

create some users:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/user --data-binary '{"username": "mariano", "password": "secret"}' -H 'Content-type: application/json' -H "Accept: application/json"

curl -X POST http://localhost:8081/api/user --data-binary '{"username": "ignacio", "password": "secret"}' -H 'Content-type: application/json' -H "Accept: application/json"