TweetWatch

What is it?

Finds Tweets that are more likely to be false information.

Setting it up

1. git clone https://github.com/dcalvo/dangertweet.git dangertweet && cd dangertweet
2. python3 -m venv env
3. Create a .env file in the root directory. Add the following:

source env/Scripts/activate
export APP_SETTINGS="config.DevelopmentConfig"
export DATABASE_URL="postgresql:///dangertweet_dev"
export CONSUMER_KEY="<consumer_key>"
export CONSUMER_SECRET="<consumer_secret>"

# Note! sometimes the database_url will need an additional username and password, which
# will look like "postgresql://user:pass@localhost:port/dangertweet_dev"

4. python -m pip install autoenv
5. echo "source `which activate.sh`" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
6. cd .. && cd dangertweet
7. Allow the script to run. Whenever you cd into this directory, you'll automatically enter your virtual python environment.
8. Install PostgreSQL.
9. python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
10. sudo -u postgres psql -c "create database dangertweet_dev" && sudo -u postgres createuser $USER
11. python manage.py db upgrade
12. python manage.py runserver

Notes

• Many of the steps above could go wrong. Troubleshoot as you go.
• Run deactivate to leave the venv.
• Run psql dangertweet_dev to get into the Postgres CLI for the DB.
• Run python manage.py runserver to run the localhost server at 127.0.0.1:5000
• Run python manage.py db migrate after changing models.py to save the changes.
• Run python manage.py db upgrade to commit the changes to the DB.
• Run python manage.py db downgrade if your changes break the DB.
• If your file path contains spaces, manually open ~/.bashrc and add the necessary back slashes
• Additionally, change the version number of autoenv to pip install autoenv==0.2.0, which despite looking like an older version, is actually a newer version.

TODO

• Add heroku config section