Django Migrations
Django has a great system for maintaining your database structure, for keeping your RDMS (typically MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite) in line with your Django-defined Models, and within your version control system. I recently hit...
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Django – a very simple unit test
Test Driven Development (TDD) is a methodology for developing programs where you first write the test, and then write just enough code to make your program pass all tests TDD makes it far less...
Using PostgreSQL with Django
Here is how go set up Django to work with PostgreSQL Install necessary libraries, etc sudo apt-get install libpq-dev sudo apt-get install python-dev sudo apt-get install postgresql-contrib Create a new database and user sudo...
Serving static files in Django
From https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/: For a production site you probably want to configure the server to serve static files directly, without going through Django. For a test site, you can use the following approach In settings.py,...
Basic Django templates
Instead of using Python to create all the HTML, Django can load and render templates In settings.py specify the location of the templates, e.g. TEMPLATE_DIRS = [ os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ‘templates’), ] Create the folder within...
Your second Django project
If you’ve followed the steps in the previous blog posts, you should have your first basic Django project up and running. You’ll also have various bits and pieces already installed, ready for your next...
Django – making changes to a model
Unless you get your model/database structure spot on first time, you’ll want to change it. Here is how to keep the database in line with your Django models Make a change to your model....
Django – starting with the admin panel
The admin panel lets you manage your models (i.e. the Django data in the database). It is not really meant for use in the production system, but it is very useful during development and...
Django – create your first model
In Django, a “model” is a Python class which turns database entities into objects. You create the class, and then use it to build the database tables and to add/edit/delete database entities. Here is a...
Django with MySQL
After PostgreSQL, MySQL is probably the most popular DBMS (database management system) used with Django. Here is how I set it up Install MySQL, etc Use the Software Manager to install mysql-server (write down...