Initial commit: BalanceBoard - Reddit-style content aggregator

- Flask-based web application with PostgreSQL
- User authentication and session management
- Content moderation and filtering
- Docker deployment with docker-compose
- Admin interface for content management

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

test_db_connection.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Test script to verify PostgreSQL connection for the app.
+"""
+
+import os
+import psycopg2
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+
+# Load environment variables
+load_dotenv()
+
+def test_connection():
+    """Test database connection using app's configuration"""
+    
+    # Get database configuration from environment
+    db_user = os.getenv('POSTGRES_USER', 'balanceboard')
+    db_password = os.getenv('POSTGRES_PASSWORD', 'balanceboard123')
+    db_host = os.getenv('POSTGRES_HOST', 'localhost')
+    db_port = os.getenv('POSTGRES_PORT', '5432')
+    db_name = os.getenv('POSTGRES_DB', 'balanceboard')
+    
+    print(f"Testing connection to PostgreSQL:")
+    print(f"  Host: {db_host}")
+    print(f"  Port: {db_port}")
+    print(f"  Database: {db_name}")
+    print(f"  User: {db_user}")
+    
+    try:
+        # Test connection
+        conn = psycopg2.connect(
+            host=db_host,
+            port=db_port,
+            database=db_name,
+            user=db_user,
+            password=db_password
+        )
+        
+        # Create a cursor
+        cur = conn.cursor()
+        
+        # Test query
+        cur.execute("SELECT version();")
+        version = cur.fetchone()
+        
+        print(f"\n✓ Connection successful!")
+        print(f"  PostgreSQL version: {version[0]}")
+        
+        # Test if we can create a simple table
+        cur.execute("""
+            CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test_table (
+                id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
+                created_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
+            );
+        """)
+        
+        # Insert test data
+        cur.execute("INSERT INTO test_table DEFAULT VALUES;")
+        conn.commit()
+        
+        # Query test data
+        cur.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM test_table;")
+        count = cur.fetchone()[0]
+        
+        print(f"✓ Database operations successful!")
+        print(f"  Test table has {count} rows")
+        
+        # Clean up
+        cur.execute("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test_table;")
+        conn.commit()
+        
+        # Close connections
+        cur.close()
+        conn.close()
+        
+        print("✓ Connection test completed successfully!")
+        return True
+        
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"\n✗ Connection failed:")
+        print(f"  Error: {e}")
+        return False
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_connection()