UL FRI timetabling system

Timetabling system is a web application written in Django. The main entry point is the application urnik_fri which also contains settings module.

The sample settings are separated into two parts: common and computer specific. New deployments should take settings-example.py as template and customize it.

All the necessary python dependencies are listed inside requirements_development.txt and requirements_production.txt. Currently they are basically the same except versions are pinned in the requirements_production.txt. The current production image is actually built from requirements_development.txt so we recommend to use that one.

The system dependencies can be read from the Dockerfile.

Developers

Timetabling system can be easily run under any linux system. Just install necessary dependencies (python and system one) and run it as any other python application.

However, in order to ensure that all development environments are the same we recommend to use Docker.

Using Docker

In Dockerfile there are instructions on how to build a Docker image from this repository. To run it we recommend running docker-compose agains the docker-compose-development.yml which runs the database and UWSGI server and sets some environmental variables.

To run it execute

docker-compose -f docker-compose-development.yml up

The command will start two docker containers: one running postgresql database and one running uwsgi server serving urnik.

The uwsgi server is by default exposed on the port 8080 on the host and the current source code is mouted inside folder /home/timetable/urnik inside UWSGI container. The UWSGI is set to restart on code changes to make development easier.

Before system is operational the database and superuser must be created using standard Django management commands. The easiest way to run management commands in it is to attach to the running docker container using command similar to the one bellow.

docker exec -it ${DOCKER_CONTAINER_ID} /bin/bash