FreeLunch

About Us

FreeLunch is an academically oriented online magazine that hosts editorials on pertinent issues in the fields of Economics & Finanace, Science and Technology and World Affairs, contributed primarily by college students.

This is the code repository for a new website design for http://www.freelunch.co.in/ The website is built on Django framework with HTML5, CSS3, JS, Jquery and AJAX. It is currently under developement.

Development Team

• Abhishek Gaur - abhishekspeer
• Indraneel Ghosh - ighosh98
• Akshay Mittal - Ak-shay
• Himanshu Agarwal - HimanshuAgarwal022
• Saransh Jindal - UnlaxedNeurotic

Contact us

Email: [email protected]

Contributing to the project

If you are interested in contributing to the repository please go through the contribution guidlines carefully

Installation

You can work on the project by cloning the repository to your local system. The url for the repository is https://github.com/BITS-Periodical-Society/freelunch.git

1. Make sure that you have git installed on your system
   • To check if you have git installed, type git in your command line. If you see a help menu for git, you are good to go.
   • To install git and understand how to use it briefly, you can use this resource. For a more complete and in-depth understanding, use this.
2. Create a local copy of the repository git clone https://github.com/BITS-Periodical-Society/freelunch.git
3. Create a virtual environment for the project
   virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
4. Install the necessary dependencies for the project - pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Now you may make changes to the project and create pull requests on github to have your changes merged in strict accordance with the contribution guidlines
6. Running the website
   • To run the website, go to the project directory cd freelunch
   • To run the local server python manage.py runserver

Creating Fake data

We use the Faker library for creating data. Checkout the repo and official documentation.

1. First create the database for the website
   python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
2. To create fake data, run the populate_site.py script
   python populate_site.py
3. Follow instructions as they come up
4. Check issue #157 for more info.