#Siddhu's Website

This is the source code for my website. It's hosted on Heroku for absolutely nothing.

Getting Started

• Clone the github repository

• Set up your environment by executing the following commands (tested on Mac OS X). I assume you have Homebrew installed.

    $ easy_install pip
    $ pip install virtualenv
  

• Download the PostGRES app (Thank you, Heroku!) here, move it to /Applications (edit your setup_env.sh if you decide to put the .app file somewhere else).

• Create a database called website by executing the following command:

    $ /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/createdb website
  

• Perform initial setup source ./setup_env.sh

• Install required dependencies using pip

    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Set up the database

    $ ./manage.py syncdb
  

• Check everything works

    $ ./manage.py runserver
  

  and visiting http://localhost:8000.

Recommended: Do try the git flow branching model out. You can get it by running brew install git-flow on your terminal.

Deployment Environments

The application is served using Heroku, the first inanimate object (that isn't a motorbike or made by Apple) that I've fallen in love with. I reserve the rights to deploy to my Heroku domains for obvious reasons.:-)

There are two environments available:

• Staging: This environment is updated regularly as I work on developing this wee website. Shadows the develop or feature branch on github.
• Production: This environment is updated far less regularly, and shadows the master branch on github.

Getting started on Heroku

Only I hold the privileges to deploy to my domain (at least until the time when I become Siddhu Inc). To deploy to a new Heroku domain, execute the following commands after first installing the Heroku Toolbelt:

heroku create
git push heroku local-branch-name:master #you can skip local-branch-name: if you are pushing from master
heroku run ./manage.py createdb

You don't need to run syncdb if you're pushing to an existing Heroku domain. You may need to run migrate depending on whether you've made any schema changes.