Pantry Pickup

pantrypickup.com

Combining city data with a list of specific needs from food pantries will allow citizens to most effectively make useful and needed donations assisted by the Pantry Pick-Up App.

Getting Started

Prerequisites: PantryPickup is a node.js app sitting on top of a MongoDB database. The script for initializing the database is written in Python. You'll need to install those three things first. After installing those, you need to initialize your database with the pantries and install any application-specific dependencies.

Initializing the DB

Starting from the root directory of this project:

pip install -r requirements.txt
cd files
./pantry_import.py

This script has a few dependencies (e.g., pymongo); install them with pip install -r requirements.txt

Installing Node Dependencies

Starting from the root directory of this project:

npm install

Running PantryPickup

Starting from the root directory of this project:

npm start

This executes node lib/app.js. If you're using node-supervisor, node- inspector, or any other similar tool, you'll want to pass in lib/app.js as the entry point into the app.

The default database is mongodb://localhost/pantry_pickup. To use a different database, run the app with a DATABASE environment variable, e.g.:

DATABASE=mongodb://localhost/other_db node lib/app.js

Or create a config file for your host and add it to your system's gitignore.

Getting Started: Docker Edition

If you would like to isolate this project from an existing install, or if you'd prefer not to fiddle with dependencies, you can use Docker to build and run PantryPickup.

Install Docker Toolbox.

If you have never used Docker before, you will need to run:

    docker-machine create -d virtualbox dev
    docker-machine start dev

From the root directory of this project, run:

    eval $(docker-machine env dev)
    docker-compose build
    docker-compose up

The application should now be running. To view it on OS X:

    open http://$(docker-machine ip dev):3001

Where 3001 is the port configured in your config/common.env file. On other platforms, run docker-machine ip dev to determine the IP address of the VM, then open your browser to http://**IP address**:3001.

A similar process applies if you want to connect directly to other services. For example, you can connect to the Mongo server from a local Mongo client by running mongo $(docker-machine ip dev)/pantry_pickup

If you think you'll be doing this sort of thing frequently, you can add a hostname to your /etc/hosts file:

    echo "$(docker-machine ip dev) docker-dev" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

Once you've done that, you can use docker-dev wherever you'd use the IP. You can do mongo docker-dev/pantry_pickup, browse to http://docker-dev:3001/, etc.

Port Forwarding

If you want to be able to connect to, e.g., localhost:3001 instead of using the VM's IP address and you're using the VirtualBox driver (the -d option to docker-machine), do this:

VBoxManage controlvm dev natpf1 "pantrypickup,tcp,127.0.0.1,3001,,3001"

Deploying PantryPickup

For automated deployments:

add to ~/.ssh/config

#Pantry Pickup
Host pantrypickup.com
user ubuntu
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/cfb

To deploy

gem install capistrano
gem install capistrano-node-deploy
cap deploy

Contributing to PantryPickup

PantryPickup is a fledgling app at the moment and is definitely welcoming contributions. The best way to contribute right now is to take a look at the open issues and look for something interesting that's not yet assigned to anyone else. Please post a comment on the issue to let us know you're interested, and then fork the repository.

If you have any questions at all, please get in touch with us.

Liam Morley • Harlan Weber