communicate

The website is currently at: http://whispering-springs-9434.herokuapp.com

A kivy app and Heroku hosted website

Some of the first few steps in setting things up: Some notes on installation required for the website: virtualenv --no-site-packages communicate source communicate/bin/activate pip3 install flask python hello.py ctrl-c # to quit python mkdir templates git init Create heroku account download heroku toolbelt

add https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Python.gitignore to your .gitignore pip3 install gunicorn echo "web: gunicorn hello:app">Procfile foreman start pip3 freeze>requirements.txt heroku create #essentially creates your remote repository on heroku

git add . git commit -m " initial"

On Heroku:

• Issues with keys: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/keys
• Python on heroku tutorial: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-python
• Where to download heroku tool-belt: https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps
• Changing to python3: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python-runtimes
• A nifty gitignore for python: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Python.gitignore
• The website: http://young-tor-5782.herokuapp.com
• Clearing logs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5558289/clear-heroku-logs-command

On Database:

• On using Redis http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/73/

On Flask:

• Some logging issues: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/errorhandling/
• Running flask locally: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/quickstart/
• Flask tutorial http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/tutorial/

For Kivy:

• Installing pip locally http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2915471/install-a-python-package-into-a-different-directory-using-pip

On Virtual environments (ignore the command easy_install, use pip instead):

• http://jamie.curle.io/blog/installing-pip-virtualenv-and-virtualenvwrapper-on-os-x/
• http://simononsoftware.com/virtualenv-tutorial/
• http://iamzed.com/2009/05/07/a-primer-on-virtualenv/