studiorooster/django-docs

Allows to serve Sphinx generated docs from django.

django-docs

django-docs allows to serve Sphinx generated docs directly from Django.

Dependencies

• Python 2.7
• Django 1.8 or higher

Credits

• Project on GitHub: littlepea/django-docs
• Documentation on Read The Docs
• Maintained by Evgeny Demchenko

Installation

1. Install django-docs package:

   pip install django-docs
   

2. Add docs to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'docs',
       ...
   )
   

3. Add docs.urls to urls.py:

   urlpatterns = [
       ...
       url(r'^docs/', include('docs.urls')),
       ...
   ]
   

4. Customize configuration:

   DOCS_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, '../docs/_build/html')
   DOCS_ACCESS = 'staff'
   

Configuration

DOCS_ROOT (required)

Absolute path to the root directory of html docs generated by Sphinx (just like STATIC_ROOT / MEDIA_ROOT settings).

DOCS_ACCESS (optional)

Docs access level (public by default). Possible values:

• public - (default) docs are visible to everyone
• login_required - docs are visible only to authenticated users
• staff - docs are visible only to staff users (user.is_staff == True)
• superuser - docs are visible only to superusers (user.is_superuser == True)

Running the tests

Make sure to install test_requirements.txt first:

pip install -r test_requirements.txt
pip install -e .

You can run the tests with via:

python setup.py test

or:

python docs/tests/runtests.py

To run all tests against different versions of Django simply run:

tox

Running the example project

Make sure to install requirements.txt first:

virtualenv env
. env/bin/activate
pip install -r test_requirements.txt
pip install -e .

You can run the example project with via:

cd example
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

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