Tinned Django v.0.3

Tinned Django is a custom project template used at Future Colors. Meant to be used with python 2.7.

Note

This is NOT a general purpose template. It's focused on our workflow and shared for curious people out there.

Goals

Enforce best practices for new projects based on Django.

New style folder structure (1.4+)
Class-based settings for different environments with sane defaults
Separate LocalSettings for every developer
Useful batteries are included (see requirements.txt)
Comprehensive .gitignore

Usage

Install Django 1.4+ so that django-admin.py is available.

Open tinned can with Django:

$ django-admin.py startproject <yourprojectname> --template https://github.com/futurecolors/tinned-django/zipball/master --extension py,gitignore
$ mv tinned_django/<yourprojectname> <yourprojectname>
$ rm -r tinned_django

Environments

These are defaults for all kinds of environments, specified by DJANGO_CONFIGURATION They're defined in {{ project_name}}.settings module.

BaseSettings: Defaults for all other environments, safe and sound
BaseLive: Local development
Live: Real-time updates, includes local settings per developer
Testing: Running tests in CI/locally
Dev: Nightly/daily/hourly builds for QA and other folks
Rc: Pre-production, for per-release deploys
Production: No comments

Local settings

Local settings, for each developer that are in effect in Live environment are defined in {{ project_name}}.live_settings module. Each mixin should be regular CBS mixin, named after developer USER env variable with first letter captialized. Example: USER=prophet -> class Prophet(object): pass These settings are checked into repository for easy developement.

Contributing

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ nosetests