Litmag (Pytest Playground)

This repo implements a (very) basic dockerized REST API to demonstrate writing django tests with pytest.

Getting Started

Fork and clone this repo on your local machine

Running the app (on Docker)

run the following from the litmag directory:

docker-compose up

Running the app (locally)

To run the app locally, you'll need to have postgress installed on your machine:

brew install postgres

Create and activate a virtual environment with virtualenv:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install the required dependencies from requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Make migrations and run the server:

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Loading Seed Data

On Docker

Exec into the web container then run loaddata:

docker exec -it litmag_web_1
# python manage.py migrate
# python manage.py loaddata db.json

On Local

Run the loaddata command from the litmag directory:

python manage.py loaddata db.json