Binder Gallery

Binder Gallery for GESIS Notebooks

Run the gallery locally

1. Clone the repository and get into it

   git clone https://github.com/gesiscss/binder_gallery.git
   cd binder_gallery
   

2. Create and activate a virtual environment with python version at least 3.7.

3. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r dev_requirements.txt
   

4. Set required environment variables

   export FLASK_APP=binder_gallery
   export FLASK_ENV=development
   # for windows
   set FLASK_APP=binder_gallery
   set FLASK_ENV=development
   

5. Create a local sqlite3 db and apply migrations

   python manage.py db upgrade
   

6. Run the application

   flask run
   

Create user

1. With create-user command:

   flask create-user <name> <password>
   

2. With flask shell:

   2.1. Start a flask shell

   flask shell
   

   2.2. Run this code to create a user:

   from binder_gallery.models import User
   User.create_user("name", "password")
   

To have custom configuration

1. Create a config file local_config.py under project folder binder_gallery

2. Put your custom configuration:

from config import Config as BaseConfig


class Config(BaseConfig):
    # add your custom configuration here

3. Define the env variable for custom config:

export BG_APPLICATION_SETTINGS=local_config.Config
# for windows
set BG_APPLICATION_SETTINGS=local_config.Config

TODOs

1. Remove GESIS related parts (templates, static files...)?

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Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). FKZ/project number: 324867496.