At Preblur, we heavily use Flask applications.

This is our template.

- Always break out code that does different things into a different file
- 4 space tab
- Wrap code to 80 characters; plaintext and comments to 78

- UNIX-ish
- Python 2.7.5
- Macs:
    - Homebrew
    - `sudo easy_install pip`
    - `sudo pip install virtualenv`
    - `brew install postgres`
    - `brew install redis`
    - `brew install heroku-toolbelt`

After cloning the project, create a new file .env in the root directory. This will be used to store all client secrets.

Here is a sample .env which contains all the neccessary keys:

DEBUG=true
REDIS_URL="redis://localhost:6379/0"
REDIS_MAX_CONNECTIONS=10
POSTGRES_URI=postgresql://root@localhost/app

At the beginning of every development session--and after pulling from the repo--run:

$ script/init_env.sh

If you've made any changes to the environment (mostly script/run pip install <pkg>) make sure to save them before committing changes:

$ script/save_env.sh

To run commands, instead of $ cmd arg1 arg2, use:

$ script/run cmd arg1 arg2

To start the server in development mode, use:

$ script/launch

To start the server under gunicorn (Heroku mode), use:

$ script/hlaunch