README.md

Web Time Tracker 2

A second attempt at an online hour tracker for Talon Robotics using Django and Heroku

https://time-tracker-2502.herokuapp.com

Features basic sign in and out functionality, ability to see the hours for all team members, see the team members currently signed in, and export all hours to a CSV

Development Setup for school issued MacBooks

• See "Installing Homebrew" here
• brew install python postgresql
• brew tap heroku/brew && brew install heroku
• brew services start postgresql
• Login to Heroku using heroku login (DM me on slack for the credentials)
• Add a Heroku Git remote by running heroku git:remote -a time-tracker-2502 in the project's local directory
• Enter psql using psql postgres (you can quit using \q)
• Create a password for your default user using \password [your-username] and quit postgres using \q
• Create a local PostgreSQL database using CREATE DATABASE [your-database]; or follow instructions here to connect to production database
• Ask me for the secret key
• Create local_settings.py in the same directory as settigns.py with your local PostgreSQL database settings and the secret key I gave you (see example below)
• Create a Python virtual environment and run pip install -r requirements.txt
• If you are getting errors with psycopg2 you may need to run pip install psycopg2-binary

local_settings.py Example

Your local_settings.py file should like this if using a local instance of PostgreSQL

DEBUG = True
SECRET_KEY = '[secret-key]'

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': '[your-database]',
        'USER': '[your-username]',
        'PASSWORD': '[your-password]',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '5432',  # Default port for PostgreSQL
    }
}

Helpful links

• Getting Started with PostgreSQL
• Getting Started with Django
• Django Docs