django-layout provides sane defaults for new Django projects based on established best practices. To use django-layout run the following command:
django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/volrath/django-layout/zipball/master --extension=py,rst,gitignore,example,conf project_nameNote
The text following this comment block will become the README.rst of the new project.
To bootstrap the project:
mkvirtualenv {{ project_name }}
cd path/to/{{ project_name }}/repository
pip install -r requirements/local.pip
pip install -e .
cp {{ project_name }}/settings/local.py.example {{ project_name }}/settings/local.py
manage.py syncdb --migrateDeveloper documentation is available in Sphinx format in the docs directory.
Initial installation instructions (including how to build the documentation as HTML) can be found in docs/install.rst.