Scribble by write_illegibly

Soojin Choi(PM), Emily Lee, Kevin Lin, Angela Tom

Project Overview

Scribbl+ is a multiplayer drawing game. For each round, users would be able to guess the word being drawn or draw one of the three words given to them.

Watch our video demo here

Necessary Packages

flask_socketio

• Allows our app to run using the features of web sockets
• Real time gameplay between the members of the app To Install:
• pip install flask_socketio

Launch Instructions

Run on localhost

1. Copy the ssh/https link found here
2. Clone the repo by running $ git clone <link>
3. Have the latest version of Python installed (Python 3.7.2)
4. Install virtualenv by running $ pip3 install virtualenv
   • Make a venv by running $ python3 -m venv VENV_NAME
   • Activate it by running $ . ~/path_to_venv/VENV_NAME/bin/activate
   • Deactivate it by running $ deactivate
5. Activate your virtual environment
6. In the root of the directory, move to the directory named scribble and run $ pip install -r requirements.txt
7. Now you are ready to run the flask app. Run the command $ python __init__.py. (Make sure your virtual enviornment is actvated)
8. Launch the app in your browser (http://127.0.0.1:5000/)

Run on Apache2

1. Copy the https link under Clone and download
2. ssh into your droplet through a user using $ ssh <user>@<ip address>
3. Go to the directory /var/www through $ cd /var/www/
4. Clone the repo and name the directory your chosen appname by running $ sudo git clone https://github.com/Soojin-C/write_illegibly.git scribble
   • The tree of the directory should be:
     • scribble
       • scribble
       • scribble.wsgi
       • scribble.conf
5. Move the .conf file to the /etc/apache2/sites-available directory by running the command $ sudo mv /var/www/scribble/scribble.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available
   • Make sure that the ServerName in scribble.conf is set to your droplet ip.
   • Make sure there are no other .conf files with the same ip as the one you place into scribble.conf
   • Enable your site by running the command $ sudo a2ensite scribble
6. Go into the first directory named scribble and run both
   1. $ sudo chgrp -R www-data scribble
   2. $ sudo chmod -R g+w scribble
7. Install virtualenv by running $ pip3 install virtualenv
   • Make a venv by running $ python3 -m venv VENV_NAME
   • Activate it by running $ . ~/path_to_venv/VENV_NAME/bin/activate
   • Deactivate it by running $ deactivate
8. Activate your virtual environment
9. Go into the second directory named scribble and run $ pip install -r requirements.txt
10. After running everything above, run $ sudo service apache2 restart

• Run this anytime you make changes as well

11. Go to your ip address to view your app
12. If there are any problems, check the error log by running $ sudo cat /var/log/apache2/error.log