A template for a Django project.

Create a new repository in github for your django project. Clone your repository into your computer. Add the django-project-template github repo as a remote repository:

• git remote add template git@github.com:magnet-cl/django-project-template.git Pull the code from the project template
• git pull template master (there may be conflicts with your README.md file, fix them and continue) Push to your own repo
• git push origin master Now you have your own django project in your repository

For a quick start, run

• ./quickstart.sh It should install all the dependencies you need to start the project

Configure your database settings in config/local_settings.py

Then run ./reset.sh to reset the database. Pass it the -s argument to start the server.

Base is the first application of this project template.

• Custom models:
  • BaseModel: An abstract django model that all your models should inherit from. Contains the following methods
    • update(self, *kwargs): updates in the database only the fields you pass in the keyword arguments
  • User: Custom user model that inherits form django.contrib.auth.models.User. This enables easy customization like adding new fieds or new methods.
    • Simple email system to send templated emails.
    • Custom Backend for email authentication instead of username authentication
• Fixtures: Fixtures with an admin user
• Admin: A basic configuration for the admin

It includes basic fabric tasks. These tasks are described later.

In order to use fabric to deploy a gunicorn+nginx configuration you must set the following variables at fabfile/config.py:

• env.server_root_dir: Remote path of deployment.
• env.server_git_url: Your git repository.
• env.server_domain: Server domain of target server. (optional)
• env.hosts: Default host used by fabric. (optional)

and add a private ssh key file (id_rsa) to fabfile/templates named ssh_key. This file will be put in the remote server as the default ssh key for the remote user.

To get a list of the available tasks run: fab -l.

Make sure to run the following task before any other task in any of the these formats:

• fab config.set_host: Uses the host specified in env.hosts and magnet as user.
• fab config.set_host:examplehost: Manually specify host.
• fab config.set_host:examplehost,user: Manually specify host and user.