Gymkhana Portal

Web portal and forum for Students' Gymkhana of IIT Jodhpur

Simplify the workflow of updating the gymkhana website without much knowledge on how to code. And also provide certain utility features.

This project includes:

A main web portal which can be updated dynamically through an admin interface.
A forum/discussion app for general purpose discussions.
An app called Konnekt to find/search people with a certain required skill set.

Requirements:

Procedure:

Navigate to the cloned repository.

cd <project_directory_name>     # gymkhana_portal

Install pipenv for dependency management
```
pip install pipenv
```
Copy .env.example to .env
```
cp .env.example .env
```
Use pipenv to install other dependencies from Pipfile
```
pipenv install --dev
```
Activate the new virtual environment
```
pipenv shell
```
Change to source code directory
```
cd src
```

Make database migrations

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Create a superuser
```
python manage.py createsuperuser
```
Download the static.zip from #gymkhana on Slack and extract the contents under src/static
Note: This project uses proprietary UI assets, which cannot be shared on GitHub. However you may use free version of mdbootstrap as an alternative. Some things may not look as intended.
Run development server on localhost
```
python manage.py runserver 
```

This will populate the database with random values for testing.

python manage.py createfixture