#django

jtiai: thanks

harmaahylje: so there is new column, no new table, just (bizarre) foreign key.

harmaahylje: Which is really should normalize as soon as possible.

s/is/you/

probably the next thing to do when I get it running on the server

It'll be interesting to see what migrations wants to do with that change.

What I don't get is why did the previous implementation (inside try-except) work in sqlite, but not mysql

harmaahylje: By accident.

harmaahylje: To comfort you - it's not first that kind of completely broken attempt to make dynamic choices-list from db.

Yeah, it comes up every now & then.

jtiai: what if I created the lists from a text file? =)

I'm looking for a free/libre image of an iMac (or similar) for displaying a screenshot on, on my home page. Any good suggestions? I tried PSDCovers, but I they're some actionscript thing that I can't open with anything but photoshop, and since I'm primarily a backend dev, I don't have the CS suite.

harmaahylje: Well you can do that as normal Django choices then.

harmaahylje: Catch is that change of choices requires code restart to be effective.

jtiai: this implementation has the same catch

I mean, the one I had

harmaahylje: Except it doesn't work with db.

I know the previous dev made a script to reload the app because of this

harmaahylje: Even more terrifying.

harmaahylje: Which would have been avoided by simple foreign key.

It's amazing how hard some people work to make their own lives difficult.

mattmcc: the guy works like 2 hours a week on the app, and he has to implement new features mostly

so I understand why he chose to do this quickly

harmaahylje: That is definitely not quick way to do that.

well, not everyone always have the perfect solutions available, otherwise we would not be needed right

since in production that change would require restarting app servers (which may require priviledges)

haven't seen perfect implementations anyuwhere

jtiai: it is in production

harmaahylje: that is really scary.

jtiai: why is is 'scary'?

is it*

well if you think that someone chages one value in that "handeness" group in your fieldchoices models.

jtiai: well yeah it can fuck up all the data

you just perfectly did valid thing corrupted your data.

but I guess the access is very limited and they won't do such things

I have been talking about this kind of things over here but no one is concerned at all

Well in the long run people will do.

that is my opinion aswell

but can't do really much because they want everything be "open for change"

coz they can't decide what they want

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hi

Hey guys, I have a model Applicant that has a OneToOne to a custom user model which has a first and last name. On this Applicant model, I'm trying to return the user's full name as __unicode__(self).

can anyone suggest what is the problem here: http://132.230.56.145/

I'm doing it like this: https://dpaste.de/K53z but in admin I still just see "Applicant object"

css does not load what should be the way of solution

Hanumaan: if I go to /static/img/ (which also gives a 404) the folder is empty

same with /css/

Boogymanx, should I copy those things? or there should be a better method right? what am I doing wrong? please let me know if you need any information. .. it works fine on my local version ..

Well, you should make sure those files are in the folder served by Apache

Hanumaan: What does manage.py findstatic css/style.css tell you?

mattmcc, it says no matching file found for 'css/style.css'

Where is that file located?

Wherever it is, the staticfiles app isn't looking for it there.

mattmcc, it is static/css/style.css here .. how do I make staticfiles app to look at there? And I think keeping in static folder is not great idea right?

mattmcc, they should get generated by themselves with collect command?

if you do findstatic static/css/style.css, does it find it then? I'm assuming findstatic would check in the static folder by default

I think that's only for apps not in your project, not sure

or well, third-party apps

Boogymanx: That's not the right path.

The argument to findstatic should be everything after STATIC_URL.

Boogymanx, it says no such file that file exists in my development machine not in server ..

mattmcc: I wasn't sure

Haudegen: What's the parent directory of that static dir that has css/style.css in it? Is it your project or an app?

Couldn't you just sftp the files in the correct folder?

No, collectstatic is the way to do this.

It's kind of important that it works right.

mattmcc, its my project ..

Haudegen: Alright. What's the value of STATICFILES_DIRS?

And STATIC_ROOT?

mattmcc, what do you mean by value? did not understood

They're both settings.

In order to have static files in your project, that static directory (project_dir/static) needs to be listed in STATICFILES_DIRS.

mattmcc, https://dpaste.de/YSAQ

So you've got an empty STATICFILES_DIRS. The commented out is probably almost right, although BASE_DIR by default points to the parent directory of your project.

What's SITE_ROOT?

mattmcc, SITE_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

So it's your project directory.

mattmcc, ys