Combining city data with a list of specific needs from food pantries will allow citizens to most effectively make useful and needed donations assisted by the Pantry Pick-Up App.
Prerequisites: PantryPickup is a node.js app sitting on top of a MongoDB database. The script for initializing the database is written in Python. You'll need to install those three things first. After installing those, you need to initialize your database with the pantries and install any application-specific dependencies.
Starting from the root directory of this project:
cd files
./pantry_import.py
This script has a few dependencies (e.g., pymongo); if your system is missing
any of these, you'll need to install them (via easy_install or your python
package manager) first.
Starting from the root directory of this project:
npm install
Starting from the root directory of this project:
npm start
This executes node lib/app.js. If you're using node-supervisor, node-
inspector, or any other similar tool, you'll want to pass in lib/app.js as the
entry point into the app.
The default database is mongodb://localhost/pantry_pickup. To use a different database, run the app with a DATABASE environment variable, e.g.:
DATABASE=mongodb://localhost/other_db node lib/app.js
Or create a config file for your host and add it to your system's gitignore.
For automated deployments:
add to ~/.ssh/config
#Pantry Pickup
Host pantrypickup.com
user ubuntu
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/cfb
To deploy
gem install capistrano
gem install capistrano-node-deploy
cap deploy
PantryPickup is a fledgling app at the moment and is definitely welcoming contributions. The best way to contribute right now is to take a look at the open issues and look for something interesting that's not yet assigned to anyone else. Please post a comment on the issue to let us know you're interested, and then [fork the repository](http://gun.io/blog/how-to-github-fork-branch-and-pull- request/).
If you have any questions at all, please get in touch with us.