Re: [Brickit] Brickit installation

[Raik G. <rai...@cr...>]

Hi Goksel,

nice hearing from some potential brickiters ;-)

Which version of brickit are you using? The last official release is quite 
outdated and should indeed not work with the latest django. If you update 
django, you also need to update brickit to the latest SVN version:

svn co https://brickit.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brickit/trunk brickit

Now, the truth is that I am not actually sure whether or not even the latest 
trunk snapshot works with the latest django either. Right now I am working on a 
new release which underwent quite a lot of refactoring for easier development, 
offers some custom forms and views for Biobricks, Vectors and Samples, gives you 
links between Biobricks and associated samples, tries to support the attachment 
of sequencing results to samples and adds support for composite biobricks. You 
can check out the current status of this work like this:

"svn co https://brickit.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brickit/branches/devel2 
brickitproject"

(one line command)

If you switch to this branch, you will need to rebuild your database. So the 
order of installation steps would be:

1) delete your database:
dropdb -U partsuser parts

2) create a new empty database:
createdb -U admin -O partsuser parts

3) checkout the project:
svn co https://brickit.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brickit/branches/devel2 
brickitproject

4) put the folder brickitproject into your PYTHONPATH

5) re-populate the database:
cd brickitproject/brickit
python manage.py syncdb

This is a "bleeding edge" snapshot and I haven't yet myself installed it on 
other machines. You probably will have to adjust the 'MEDIA_FOLDER' (or 
something like that) in the settings.py. This is the folder where file 
attachments are stored (only sequencing traces for now). The other caveat is 
that I am probably going to make at least one last change to the data model 
before rolling this out as a new official release, so please consider this a 
preview and don't use it for production purposes yet.

If you find the time, it would be great to know whether you can get this 
development version running on your system. It's also the much better starting 
point if you want to extend the server -- there are tons of things that need to 
be improved.
Any further questions are most welcome!

Pass my best greetings to Anil and Jennifer!
Good luck!
Raik

Goksel Misirli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My name is Goksel Misirli. I'm a PhD student at Newcastle University, UK.
> 
> After our discussions with my tutors,Anil Wipat and Jennifer Hallinan, they
> wanted me to setup Brickit and I'm trying to install it to one of our
> servers.
> 
> But when I run "python manage.py syncdb" I get the error attached in the
> email. It complains about django.core.validators module.
> 
> I checked django files and I could not find validators.py which exist in the
> virtual machine installation I downloaded from brickit web site. Virtual
> machine installation is ok but the normal installation does not work.
> 
> It looks like brickit does not work with the latest version of Django. Or I
> might be missing something else.
> 
> If you could point me at the right direction, I would be grateful. I spent
> some time but I could not make it working yet.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Goksel Misirli
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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