Installation

Pre-Requisites

• setuptools
• virtualenv

To install all of these system dependencies on a Debian-based system, run:

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install virtualenv

Creating the Virtual Environment

First, create a clean base environment using virtualenv:

virtualenv dinnertime
cd dinnertime
source bin/activate

If you are using virtualenvwrapper (recommended) then:

mkvirtualenv dinnertime
workon dinnertime

Installing the Project

Install the requirements and the project source:

sudo apt-get install python-memcache
python manage.py startapp accounts
    cd path/to/your/dinnertime/repository
pip install -r requirements.pip
pip install -e .

Customize the Project

Take a look at the settings file in dinnertime/settings/base.py

Configuring a Local Environment

If you’re just checking the project out locally, you can copy some example configuration files to get started quickly:

cp dinnertime/settings/local.py.example dinnertime/settings/local.py
manage.py syncdb --migrate

Populate the Recipe Database

To download recipes from the yummly API add the correct key to yummly/management/commands/yummly_meta.py and run the following command:

python manage.py yummly_meta <model>

Make sure you set <model> to one of “Ingredient, Recipe, Course, Allergy or Diet”

Building Documentation

Documentation is available in docs and can be built into a number of formats using Sphinx. To get started:

pip install Sphinx
cd docs
make html

This creates the documentation in HTML format at docs/_build/html.