[p2pu-dev] Getting Involved

[Dirk Uys]

A few tips that may help anyone trying to get started with the lernanta
codebase:

$ apt-get install graphviz graphviz-dev

In your development environment (iow after you issued "workon lernanta")
run:

$ pip install django-extensions
$ pip install Werkzeug
$ pip install pygraphviz

You can then run the debug server using

$ python manage.py runserver_plus

This gives you the werkzeug debugger! You can now do things like put "raise
Exception()" in a view function and then use the interactive debugger in
your browser to see what happened up until that point!

Another useful command is:

$ ./manage.py graph_models -a -g -o my_project_visualized.png

which gives you a diagram of all the models!

Hope that helps a little

Cheers
Dirk

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Corbin Tarrant <Corbin at iamcorbin.net> wrote:

> I agree that a screencast overview of the code would be really helpful for
> getting started.
>
> The Q&A is another good idea and I think that would work well added to the
> git wiki: https://github.com/p2pu/**lernanta/wiki/<https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/wiki/>
>
> I'm excited to get involved, thanks for the responses everyone. I've used
> open source software for years but I'm just getting started learning how to
> help out and contribute and it's good to know there are people here to help.
>
> ------------------------
> Corbin Tarrant
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>
> On Tue 03 Apr 2012 12:15:49 PM EDT, Ricardo Soares wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm also a newbie on contributing to Lernanta. At the moment I'm trying
>> to help José developing the lernanta API, and I think a screencast overview
>> of Lernanta would be awesome.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:58 PM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com <mailto:
>> zuzel.vp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Just replied at
>>    http://lists.p2pu.org/**pipermail/p2pu-dev/2012-April/**002566.html<http://lists.p2pu.org/pipermail/p2pu-dev/2012-April/002566.html>
>>
>>    On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Corbin Tarrant
>>    <Corbin at iamcorbin.net <mailto:Corbin at iamcorbin.net>> wrote:
>>
>>        Hello Everyone,
>>
>>        I am still trying to get involved but am having a hard time
>>        getting started. I have a dev environment setup and have
>>        forked the github code. I posted before about not being able
>>        to edit courses or create anything other than the dummy
>>        content created with: python manage.py loaddata
>>        apps/badges/fixtures/test_**challenges_with_bagdes.json
>>
>>        That aside, I'm trying to look over the code and get an
>>        understanding of how everything works together but I'm new to
>>        django as well and have only gone through the beginner
>>        tutorial. There is quite a bit more complexity to the lernanta
>>        app then the demo app created in the django tutorial and I was
>>        wondering if someone could help me better understand how
>>        everything is structured. I'm basically looking for a tour of
>>        the code and some guidance on learning more.
>>
>>
>>        ------------------------
>>        Corbin Tarrant
>>        Corbin at iamcorbin.net  <mailto:Corbin at iamcorbin.net>
>>
>>        http://iamcorbin.net
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