KU Polls: Online Survey Questions

An application to conduct online polls and surveys based on the Django Tutorial project, with additional features.

Install and Run

Run Setup.py Method

Clone this repository and Run setup.py to install and run the project

Don't forget to answer the question from setup.py to setup the project

git clone https://github.com/Sosokker/ku-polls
cd ku-polls
python setup.py

or run setup.ps1 (For Windows User)

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Manual

1. Install Python 3.11 or later
2. Run these commands to clone and install requirements.txt

git clone https://github.com/Sosokker/ku-polls
cd ku-polls
pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create file call .env in ku-polls directory and add this line

SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key

You can generate your own your_secret_key by this command

python manage.py shell -c "from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key; print(get_random_secret_key())"

or

• Django Secret Key Generator #1
• Django Secret Key Generator #2

Don't forget to change your_secret_key to your secret key (without quote)

You can look at sample.env for more information and others environment variables to set.

4. Run these commands

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py loaddata data/users.json
python manage.py loaddata data/polls.json
python manage.py runserver

NOTE

By Default DEBUG=False and Django will not load Static files for you so if you want to apply CSS run this.

python manage.py runserver --insecure

or set DEBUG=True or do the collectstatic

Then connect to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ or localhost:8000/

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Recommend

You can create virtual environment by using this command before install requirements.txt

1. Install virtualenv via pip

python -m pip install --user virtualenv

2. Run these commands

python -m virtualenv .venv

3. Use virtual environment

.venv\Scripts\activate

Demo Superuser

Username	Password
admin	ineedmorebullets

Demo User

Username	Password
tester1	aa12345678aa
tester2	aa12345678aa
tester3	aa12345678aa
tester4	aa12345678aa
novote	aa12345678aa

Project Documents

All project documents are in the Project Wiki.

• Vision Statement
• Requirements
• Iteration1
• Iteration2
• Iteration3

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