Open Weigh

Software for Weighting Devices

Core Developers

• Dairon Medina [email protected]
• Rhys Park [email protected]

Contributing

Consider any moment in life that you could have been writing unit tests.

The easiest way to add features is to write a plugin. Please create an issue to discuss whether your plugin idea is a core plugin (plugins.*) or external plugin. If there are additions needed to the plugin API, we can discuss that as well!

Manifesto

Create a mature software for weigh in Devices based on Python and Django following this principles:

• Be pluggable and light-weight. Don't integrate optional features in the core.
• Be open. Make an extension API that allows the ecology of the software to grow.
• Be simple. The source code should almost explain itself.

Installing

Pre-requisites

OpenWeigh uses the PIL library for image processing. The preferred method should be to get a system-wide version of PIL, for instance by getting the binaries from your Linux distribution repos.

PIL Directly from repository: Debian-based Linux Distros

sudo apt-get install python-imaging

PIL/Pillow for Pypi

Firstly, you need to get development libraries that PIP needs before compiling. For instance on Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg8 libjpeg-dev libpng libpng-dev

After that, choose either pip install PIL or pip install Pillow. Pillow is the pip-friendly version of PIL. You might as well install PIL system-wide, because there are little version-specific dependencies in Django applications when it comes to PIL.

Downloading the source code

To get the latest Source Code clone this repository by running:

git clone [email protected]:codeadict/IGPython.git

Be sure to have git installed on your system.

Create Database

After configuring OpenWeigh the next step is to create the database used by it by running:

python manage.py syncdb

Running OpenWeigh

Finally, start the development server by running the following line, and to take it for a spin by opening http://localhost:8000 in your browser.

python manage.py runserver

In order for the server to be accessible from another computer you can run the following line instead:

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000