LivePollView

A Portfolio Project in partial fulfilment for the requirements of the ALX Software Engineering program

Authors:

• Peter
• Ezechiel
• Japhet

Demo

A demo is available at https://peterchibunna.github.io/LivePollView/ with a CTA linking to https://peterchibunna.tech/

Setup Requirements

At the moment, we're using sqlite for portability. For production, we might move to a RDBMS, like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc.

We need to install the spatial extension (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library)(gdal) depending on your Operating System

Ubuntu: $ sudo apt install gdal-bin libgdal-dev
Windows:
MacOS: ``

SQLite:

For SQLite database: SpatiaLite

on Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions (es: Debian, Ubuntu, …):

$ apt install libsqlite3-mod-spatialite

on macOS using Homebrew:

$ brew install spatialite-tools

Testing and Installation and Usage

This app is built on the Django web framework.

• Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/peterchibunna/LivePollView.git
• cd into the Project folder, and
• create a virtual environment: virtualenv -p python3 venv
• Activate the virtual environment: source venv/bin/activate
• Install the project pip requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
• The run the test server: ./manage.py runserver localhost:8080
• For deployment, we need gunicorn and nginx proxying the gunicorn socket.
• Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/ or the address with port of your choice as configured

Screenshots

Troubleshooting

Make sure the required packages are installed. For example, you might encounter errors if you didn't install the gdal libraries.