A project template for Django 1.5 based off django-twoscoops-project. This expands on that template with my own directory structure tweaks, rerolled default requirements, and deployment management with fabric.
- Django Best Practices
- SASS Integration
- Unit Tests
- Automated Build
- Automated Deploy
To use this project follow these steps:
- Create your working environment
- Install Django
- Create the new project using the django-two-scoops template
- Install additional dependencies
- Use the Django admin to create the project
note: these instructions show creation of a project called "icecream". You should replace this name with the actual name of your project.
You have several options in setting up your working environment. We recommend using virtualenv to seperate the dependencies of your project from your system's python environment. If on Linux or Mac OS X, you can also use virtualenvwrapper to help manage multiple virtualenvs across different projects.
First, make sure you are using virtualenv (http://www.virtualenv.org). Once that's installed, create your virtualenv:
$ virtualenv --distribute icecream
You will also need to ensure that the virtualenv has the project directory added to the path. Adding the project directory will allow django-admin.py to be able to change settings using the --settings flag.
In Linux and Mac OSX, you can install virtualenvwrapper (http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/), which will take care of managing your virtual environments and adding the project path to the site-directory for you:
$ mkdir icecream $ mkvirtualenv -a icecream icecream-dev $ cd icecream && add2virtualenv `pwd`
In Windows, or if you're not comfortable using the command line, you will need to add a .pth file to the site-packages of your virtualenv. If you have been following the book's example for the virtualenv directory (pg. 12), then you will need to add a python pathfile named _virtualenv_path_extensions.pth to the site-packages. If you have been following the book, then your virtualenv folder will be something like:
`~/.virtualenvs/icecream/lib/python2.7/site-directory/`
In the pathfile, you will want to include the following code (from virtualenvwrapper):
import sys sys.__plen = len(sys.path) /home/<youruser>/icecream/icecream/ import sys new=sys.path[sys.__plen:] del sys.path[sys.__plen:] p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0) sys.path[p:p]=new sys.__egginsert = p+len(new)
To install Django in the new virtual environment, run the following command:
$ pip install django
To create a new Django project called 'icecream' using django-twoscoops-project, run the following command:
$ django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/axelmagn/django-boilerplate-project/archive/master.zip --extension=py,rst,html icecream
Depending on where you are installing dependencies:
In development:
$ pip install -r requirements/local.txt
For production:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
note: We install production requirements this way because many Platforms as a Services expect a requirements.txt file in the root of projects.
- Many thanks to Randall Degges for the inspiration to write the book and django-skel.
- All of the contributors to this project.