The Cave of Dragonflies ASB

Setting up for development

First of all, set up a Python 3 virtualenv. (Using a virtualenv is more or less mandatory — setup.py specifies exact versions of everything that will probably conflict with anything else.)

Also, if you want to use something other than SQLite for the database, make a copy of development.ini and change the sqlalchemy.url line accordingly.

Anyway, from this directory:

pip install --editable .
asbdb development.ini init
pserve --reload development.ini

Updating

pip install --upgrade --editable .
asbdb development.ini update

Optional packages

Other potentially-useful packages to pip install (i.e. everything that's not in setup.py but that I use in production):

• gunicorn, for Serious Deployment instead of pserve
• psycopg2, if you're using Postgres
• pycrypto, if you want to use cookie-only sessions