abijithmg / cm_test

C M test

Documentation

• mkdir workspace
• cd workspace
• git clone https://github.com/Soumya44/Soumya_Ecommerce
• python3 -m venv ecomm-env [python 3.7]
• source ecomm-env/bin/activate
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• psycopg2 commented as its not required. (PostgreSQL related connector)
• pillow issues, resolved by going to https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html and installing the dependencies externally: brew install libtiff libjpeg webp little-cms2
• pip install mysqlclient (As we will be using mysql db engine) [ NOTE: brew install mysql ; brew services start mysql has to be executed before installing this]
• Added local.py file in settings folder, and added mysql credentials
• Python manage.py check [Issues w.r.t to syntax in python 3.7 for this project]
• Install python 3.6.2 and re-activated virtualenv.
• python mange migrate Faced issues w.r.t max_length: django.db.utils.OperationalError: (1426, "Too-big precision 100 specified for 'shipping_total'. Maximum is 65.") Fix: reduced the max_length to 65 as allowed by mysql [If PostgreSQL was used this error would ve not popped up]
• python manage.py createsuperuser
• python manage.py runserver [Ecommerce web app successfully set up in local system]
• python manage.py startapp mentoring
• Add mentoring in INSTALLED_APPS of ecommerce/settings/local.py
• Created Mentor and Student classes in models.py
• python manage.py makemigrations mentoring
• python mange migrate
• Added crud related functions/business logic for Mentor and Student in views.py
• Defined appropriate urls for the app in urls.py
• Created two model forms to display in html pages in forms.py
• Created templates folder inside monitoring folder, inside that created base.html and other appropriate html files for the CRUD operations which extends from base.html
• In order to access the mentoring platform hit this URL: http://localhost:8000/mentoring/
• You can either CRUD operations on mentor and students from the above link or http://localhost:8000/admin/mentoring/
• Search mentors logic: I am passing the student’s skill as query for Mentor objects filter as shown below: student = get_object_or_404(Student, pk=pk) mentors = Mentor.objects.filter(expertise=student.skill_to_learn)