django-startproject

A project template for Django 1.5.

Creating your project

To create a new Django project called 'myproject' using django-startproject, run the following command (this assumes you have Django 1.5 or 1.4 installated aready):

$ django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/leveille/django-startproject/zipball/master --extension=py,rst,html myproject

You can choose a different name by running the same command but replacing the word 'myproject' with something else.

Installation of Dependencies

First, make sure you are using virtualenv (http://www.virtualenv.org):

$ mkvirtualenv --distribute myproject

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://http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/), which will take care of adding the project path to the site-directory for you:

$ cd myproject && add2virtualenv `pwd`

Then, depending on where you are installing dependencies:

In development:

$ pip install -r requirements/local.txt

For production:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Acknowledgements

I'm working through the twoscoops book. Thanks to those guys for the push I needed to finally put together some startproject files. Most of what's here has been hijacked from them.