/cookiecutter-django-polyfill

Attempt to make a cutesy name for a file that answers most of the cookiecutter-django prompts the way I want (i.e. it _fill_s _many_ of the _cookiecutter-django_ prompts 😆)

What

Default answers for most of cookiecutter-django for Django newbs especially those under my tutelage.

How

  1. somehow come to have this repo's cookiecutter-django-simple.json file on your machine.
    • note: you will need the path to this file in a moment where we'll refer to it as PATH_TO_THIS_FILE (e.g. on my machine it's at ~/dev/cookiecutter-django-polyfill/cookiecutter-django-simple.json so i will substitute that for PATH_TO_THIS_FILE in the following steps)
  2. With 1 small update detailed next, use cookiecutter-django as it instructs in the Setting Up Development Environment steps here, except with an extra command line argument in step 3 (make this small addition): 
    cookiecutter gh:cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django --replay-file PATH_TO_THIS_FILE

When

Perhaps when you're very new to Django and you've been pointed in this direction.

Why

Because the cookiecutter template for Django is fantastic, but for my purposes I want to be able to assume that my students have several of the options chosen as specified here.

Who