#django

I hate javascript :(

Terminus -- you may try django debug toolbar

mattmcc: hmmm... as of now i'm not using the same view for more than one page.

issackelly: it's not for debugging. i want a link to a particular page disabled when i'm on that page.

request.path

yeah, been looking at that.

i just need to rearrange how i get my RequestContexts.

I have an url like /path/something/?next=/somethingelse, self.request.GET.get('next') is "empty", what I'm doing wrong?

and of course i couldn't get to request.path because i don't have TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS in settings.py. >_<

Terminus it should be there by default

maybe not

maybe just in the default settings.py

issackelly: it's not there by default, but it is set

not the request processor though

nope

and it always irks me that we have the request processor in there

but, iirc, grappelli requires it

Using celery, after upgrading to 1.5, it's finding my tasks as appname.tasks.add() rather than projectname.appname.tasks.task. Is there any way to change that? it's making my tasks not work.

(and it's driving me crazy for the 100th time)

so , I learned to put try: catch OUTSIDE of `with transaction.commit_on_success() ` ...

issackelly: yeah, just fixed it.

Cool

hey #django, quick question: I'm trying to host my site via gunicorn and nginx, but for some reason the only thing that won't load is the admin templates (default ones still). Is there something sepcific I have to add to my nginx configuration to make those templates load?

Do you mean static files?

no, the admin interface comes with some basic templates for the admin control panel.

static files are working fine :)

In order for the templates to not work, you'd have to not have the admin in your INSTALLED_APPS.

Unless you're doing something particularly weird.

mattmcc: not entirely sure. Admin is in INSTALLED_APPS, that's for sure, and it was loading the templates on my test system, but now I've got it on production (DEBUG = False) and they don't load anymore.

So what error do you get?

I can log into the control panel, but the layout (CSS, Images) for the admin control panel don't show up

Okay, so you did mean static files.

Have you run collectstatic?

are these different from files you host in /static/?

and no, haven't run collectstatic. How would I go about running that?

does django use a global db connection object for making db queries?

i mean i dont have to pass in the db connection if i instantiate a model

Raydiation: That's handled for you, yes.

so why is it global?

Well, it's a singleton, it's global to the lifetime of a request, not global to the process.

what if i wanted another db connection?

DeeEff: I'd start by getting familiar with how the staticfiles app works. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/intro/tut... and https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/howto/sta...

isnt this bad for testing?

mattmcc, brimpa, issackelly: decided to go with {{ request.resolver_match.url_name }}

or should i just put this into a very simple db layer

Raydiation: Django's test runner creates a completely new copy of your database(s)

yeah and the test runner is incredibly slow

Well, that depends on a lot of things.

you can skip the db tests right?

as in only run them on the CI server

thanks btw.

Er, of course you can decide when and where you run tests..

And there are a number of ways to manage the speed of the tests.

so it wont create a db every time i run tests?

Cool

Normally the test database is created when you start the runner, then all the tests run, then the DB is destroyed.

So that you guarantee your tests run in a clean environment.

i want to run all tests when saving a file

...

Are we talking about the same kind of tests?

basically something like grunts watch

unit tests

as in, i want to write a test, save, see it go red, edit the file, save, see it go green

Running the test suite on every file save seems overly aggressive.

thanks mattmcc, I solved my problem

running collectstatic was the issue

works really well for everything i develop atm

as in its fast

Now, you can tell the test runner to run an individual test, not the whole suite..

but the db will still be created?

Combined with using sqlite's in-memory DB, it'd be pretty fast.

If you're sure you don't need the DB, you can always use a different test runner. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/te...

And then there's https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/te...

ah right

so basically what i want is to split the stuff from the django testrunner that doesnt need access to the db

so basically unit tests outside of django

integration tests with django

Or you can swap out the test runner completely with something like Nose, which has plugins for all sorts of other tools.

yeah, right

ty

apart from that with the cbvs theres not a lot code anymore

https://github.com/jbalogh/django-nose/ makes that easy.

basically only configuration which should be tested with integration tests

Hi, any suggestions for a CI framework for Django on AWS?

Just want something that checks out new code, runs manage.py test and alerts failures

Jenkins?

cjb: travis-ci if you host on github

and its foss