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Is it a matter of preference?

to a degree

on the model itself at least gives you access to the instsnce you want to set as a value

Right, without having to provide it as a param.

What's the advantage of putting it in the manager?

I guess one would be that I wouldn't have to instantiate the Foo model to create it, I could just use a PK.

it's available to everything using that manager

is it possible to do something like foo.bars.create_blue_bar(), where the foo value is known in the method without having to pass it in?

I don't think so

i’m going to execute some raw sql to do some calculations, and i’d like to put the output into a django model. can someone check to see if my logic sounds right?

stickperson: where's the raw sql?

FunkyBob: not there yet. still working on it. well, a friend is working on it.

and why not use Weeklystats.objects.raw() ?

i was unaware of that

mostly I wanted to make sure you weren't doing something stupid, like substituting the arguments into the SQL yourself

the sql is going to do something along the lines of calculate the change in followers for each social media account and then generate an overall rank based off that

i think the only argument i would pass in would be the date

if i were to go with WeeklyStats.objects.raw(), i’m assuming that wouldn’t be inside the model, would it?

even so.. remember to just leave a placeholder in the SQL, and pass the arguments separately

Hey everyone - In the admin, I'm trying to save a model and its inline children at the same time. I need to use custom save to populate current running user, date, etc. I need to populate these on both the children and the parent. would I use save_model() or save_formset() or both?

what do you mean by "inside" the model?

FunkyBob: inside the class. for instance, i currently have objects = WeeklyStatsManager() inside the model definition

so you have a custom manager....

well, raw() is a manager method

ok, that makes sense

now i’m just trying to think how i can write the sql to get back a WeeklyStats object

stickperson: sounds like you want to count grouped by week-of-year

FunkyBob: well, right now i’m just thinking how do i get an object out of rawsql?

select all the fields, raw will take care of it

have you not read the docs on raw() ?

briefly. i should do that...

how would i save a new instance from raw(). would it be “for person in WeeklyStats.objects.raw(swl): person.save() ?

having a problem with my css files. I have them in both projectroot/static/app and projectroot/app/static/app, and I just get 404 errors on all of them. Any suggestions?

bogeyd6: is projectroot/static in settings.STATICFILES_DIRS ?

is 'app' in settings.INSTALLED_APPS ?

FunkyBob, no

if projectroot/static isn't in STATICFILES_DIRS ... Django won't know to look there

if app isn't in installed apps, django wo't know to look there

were you expecting Django to just guess?

I'm sorry. If anybody answered my question about CSS files, I missed it. I seem to have been disconnected for a while.

bdmc: if you never added that path to STATICFILES_DIRS , Django won't know to look there

and if your app isn't in INSTALLED_APPS , again, Django won't know to look there

how do i override the error message from django auth “Please enter a correct username and password. Note that both fields are case-sensitive.”

HowardwLo: you mean in Forms?

FunkyBob: yes, forms