Simple Flask Guest Book

A guest book is a simple app that allows a user to leave their name and a message, and see the other names and messages of users who have signed before them.

This app is ment to be an example in building a simple Flask app with GETs, POSTs, and inserting and reading from an SQL database using dataset.

Get your PIP (your dependency manager)

If you have a mac

if you have easy_install already, just skip to step 3, you can test by typing which easy_install in your terminal

1. Download the distribute setup script to get easy_install

http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py

2. Run the script to install easy_install (do this in the terminal)

python distribute_setup.py

3. easy_install pip (do this in the terminal)

easy_install pip

If you’re on Windows

1. Install pip-Win

https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/python/pip-for-windows

If you’re on Ubuntu

1. Install with Apt (in terminal)

sudo apt-get install python-pip

Install Dependencies

1. In your terminal, pip install flask and dataset

pip install flask
pip install dataset

Run the server

1. In your terminal, navigat to the repo’s directory and run app.py

cd [REPO LOCATION]
python app.py

2. Access app from localhost:5000