#django

thank you orf_

anyone?

what was your question littlebit?

it is my first time at deploying django code, I need some elaboration, on the part with the secret key. Where should I put the code that reads the text file?

sorry littlebit, I don't understand your question. You usually put your secret key inside your `settings.py` file

`SECRET_KEY = 'something'`

that goes inside your django application directory, alongside the `wsgi.py` file by default.

orf_: that is true, but I'm reading this line https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/de...

oh, this code would go inside your settings.py file

but I would advise just leaving it as-is if this is your first time

orf_: ok and I want to use nginx to host the django site. is there a template conf-file?

nope, and this is annoying as hell, believe me.

is a good example to build from

i wish there was a tool to generate a nginx config

orf_: in what way 'anoying'?

https://github.com/chilts/nginx-generator exists

it's annoying because I often find myself re-writing the same nginx config file

ok

having to search for the same resources, the only thing that changes is the hostname usually. Check out that `nginx-generator` repo

orf_: again thank you for the links

hey, django really kicks ass

ModelForms kicks ass as well

I have some questions though about organizing your code

Basically, you can organize your views as you want it, that is to say you could create a folder views/ and put modules into it if your code grows larger, isn't it ?

this is correct and not uncommon

orf_: one more question, according to your first link I can install gunicorn via pip. Is there a difference if I install it via apt-get install ?

yes, it will be outdated

and wont work inside a virtualenv (which you should be using)

but either way works I guess

orf_:

orf_: ok

why is it advised to yuse a virtual env to run django app ?

bbear: OS package ecosystems / packagers tend to have different use-cases/targets than software developers

bbear: so "the version of django that ships with your system" is probably one picked and supported by your OS

for all Django things that come with your OS

bbear: this will probably be different to "the version of Django you want to develop software against"

bbear: so you use a virtualenv to set up a "local environment" and you fetch whatever version you like as a python package with pip from PyPI

that's amazing it took me only 2 days to have a running blog (though very rudimentary) with django.

I plan to use debian jessie to run my code. Any advice on how to regularly update that thing using a git hook ?

bbear: "update" in what sense?

I just git push and the deployed code is update on the fly.

well actually it's a bad idea

OR is it ?

admin sys stuff use to give me headaches.

bbear: so

bbear: I need to head shortly, and I'm conscious of "here's some advice, bye" as well as "here's a suggestion to fundamentally rethink what you're doing, bye" *but* consider using someone else's PaaS rather than building your own?

(e.g. Heroku)

yes

I considered

don't worry

thanks

ok, then git as a deployment method isn't great, but it's not a bad idea in-and-of itself

personally I'd use GitHub post-receive hooks to hit something that does a git-pull, YMMV

orf_: I copied my django-cms envivroment along with all django-cms files to my test server, starting my virtenv didn't work so I removed the env folder and recreated the virtualenv and did a pip install -r requirements.txt and I got this: http://dpaste.com/1G5EXN3

yeah, virtualenvs aren't portable (without faff)

'faff'??

well

sorry, let me rephrase

virtualenvs aren't portable, except in certain cases, and even then it's tedious

doismellburning: ok, how would you do this?

or how is this done?

I've got something weird happening. I have from django.views import View but my editor (Eclipse) is saying that VIews is an Unresolved Import. I've restarted Eclipse a couple of times, but it's still failing (and the fail is stopping the build) any ideas?

you wouldn't. they're supposed to be recreatable

littlebit: so there's "how I'd do it in a personal setup where I needed to solve this problem immediately" (I'd rebuild the virtualenv on deploy, which is icky)

littlebit: there's "how I'd do it in a personal setup where I had more time" (I'd use Docker) and "what I'd generally do" (I'd use someone else's PaaS)

you're confusing things doismellburning

littlebit: you don't move virtualenvs. You just do `pip install -r requirements.txt` inside a new one

and then thats it. There is no need to move or copy them

and you don't want to anyway, if you copy one from Windows or Mac to Linux then the dependencies might be different and not work

orf_: ok, what do you mean with "inside a new one"?

orf_: what I just did is: pip install -r ./modern_business/requirements.txt

littlebit: how much do you know about virtual environments?

yeah, fair, sorry

b0nn: virtualenvs are sandboxes where you install your libraries, being totally independent from the libraries that are installed on the system.

when doing "pip install -r requirements.txt" I get this: http://dpaste.com/1G5EXN3

sry, I meant this: http://dpaste.com/1T1RH36

I needed to change from: from django.views import View to: from django.views.generic import View.

I'm not sure why the example I am following is wrong :\

Hello, I have a Report model defined (https://dpaste.de/aegN). My report can be targeted at a ForumPost object or a BlogPost object. How would I do this following DRY principle?

rocketsnail: why not look at it from the other direction

that is, have a reference from the Post to the report

b0nn only because if a user makes a post it might not need to be reported to moderators

so there might not be any reports for a BlogPost or ForumPost

oh I see

So you want a report, and that report is linked to a Post

There's no reason you can't have two keys one to a BlogPost and one to a ForumPost, then make sure only one can be populated,

But one _must be populated

and check in the save that that rule is satisfied

Another option might be to have both Blog and Forum posts be sub classes of.. myPost

and have a link to myPost in your report

but you'd have to make sure the myPost always linked to a post