This is a portal to display public record requests to the community and the City of Oakland. It's currently in a research and development phase by the Code for America 2013 Oakland team. We hope to update the documentation soon! In the meantime you can e-mail us at oakland at codeforamerica dot org or open an issue if you have any questions.

This application requires Postgres and Xcode developer tools to be installed.

/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/psql
CREATE DATABASE your_database_name;

Install Postgres, Python, and other required packages.

sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.1 postgresql-server-dev-9.1 python-dev

If you are using a standard Postgres installation or from Homebrew you can also use:

    createdb publicrecords

In a new window:

git clone git://github.com/codeforamerica/public-records.git
cd public-records
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
mkdir uploads
python 

Save exampleconfig.py as local_config.py and update relevant fields. To test e-mail, sign up for a free account with SendGrid and provide the username and password in MAIL_USERNAME and MAIL_PASSWORD.

To use the application locally, in a new window:

gunicorn -w 3 -t 180 public_records_portal:app

You should see something similar to:

2013-05-06 12:16:53 [1776] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 0.17.4
2013-05-06 12:16:53 [1776] [INFO] Listening at: http://127.0.0.1:8000 (1776)
2013-05-06 12:16:53 [1776] [INFO] Using worker: sync
2013-05-06 12:16:53 [1779] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 1779
2013-05-06 12:16:53 [1780] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 1780

Navigate to the url (in this case, http://127.0.0.1:8000) in your browser.