Corruption is a huge bane to Africa’s development. African countries must develop novel and localised solutions that will curb this menace, hence the birth of iReporter. iReporter enables any/every citizen to bring any form of corruption to the notice of appropriate authorities and the general public. Users can also report on things that needs government intervention

You can clone the project using the link [Github repository] (https://github.com/chrismatgit/ireporterdb.git) .

• Clone the project into your local repository using this command:

  $ git clone https://github.com/chrismatgit/iReporter.git

Switch to the cloned directory, install a virtual environment, create a virtual environment, activate it, checkout to the most stable branch, install app dependencies and run the app.

  $ cd iReporterdb
  $ pip install virtualenv
  $ virtualenv -p python3 venv
  $ source venv/bin/activate
  $ git checkout ft-api
  $ pip install -r requirements.txt
  $ python3 run.py

Note If you're using Windows, activate your virtualenv using $ source venv/Scripts/activate

• Copy the url http://127.0.0.1:5000/ into your Postman and to run any endpoint follow the table under the heading (Endpoints) with the url prefix ('/api/v1') for each endpoint.

Install pytest, source the .env file, run the tests.

  $ pip install pytest
  $ python3 -m pytest

The Python application is hosted on Heroku

• Flask - Web microframework for Python
• Virtual environment - tool used to create isolated python environments
• pip - package installer for Python

The project has been built with the following technologies so far:

• Python/Flask

To contibute to the project, create a branch from the develop branch and make a PR after which your contributions may be merged into the develop branch

Christian Matabaro