Make complexityplots directly usable by new users

README.md

@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ To install the Python library requirements, run:
 
     pip install -r requirements.txt
 
+or, if you want to use Postgres as the dabase backend:
+
+    pip install -r requirements-postgres.txt
+
+To initialise the database (SQLite is used by default), run:
+
+    python manage.py syncdb
+
+
 ## Running
 
 Though the client and server can be run independently (and they are in fact run as such our ovii server), you can run them both on your local machine simply with:

complexityplot/complexityplot/settings.py

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 DEBUG = True
 TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
 
+BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))) 
+
 ADMINS = (
     ('Simon Walton', '[email protected]'),
 )
@@ -63,9 +65,9 @@
 # Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files
 # in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS.
 # Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/"
-STATIC_ROOT = "/Users/sim/Documents/ComplexityPlot/Web/complexityplot/"
+STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR
 
-BASE_DIR = "/Users/sim/Documents/ComplexityPlot/Web/complexityplot/"
+BASE_DIR = BASE_DIR
 
 # URL prefix for static files.
 # Example: "http://example.com/static/", "http://static.example.com/"
@@ -123,7 +125,7 @@
     # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
     # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
     # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
-    "/Users/sim/Documents/ComplexityPlot/Web/complexityplot/templates/"
+    os.path.normpath(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'))
 )
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = (

requirements-postgres.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+-r requirements.txt
+psycopg2==2.4.6

requirements.txt

@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 Django==1.5.1
 South==0.7.6
-distribute==0.6.35
 dj-database-url==0.2.1
 gunicorn==0.17.2
 heroku==0.1.2
 ipython==0.13.1
 numpy==1.7.0
-psycopg2==2.4.6
 python-dateutil==1.5
 requests==1.2.0
 virtualenv==1.9.1