django-commands contains the following command extensions for the Django web framework:

• db_clear -- removes all tables from the database,
• db_backup -- creates a backup dump file of the database,
• db_load -- loads data from a backup dump file to the database,
• cache_clear -- calls clear_from_cache() for all objects in given models.

Install the package with pip:

$ pip install git+http://github.com/mrts/django-commands.git

and add 'django_commands' to INSTALLED_APPS in your Django project settings file:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
   ...
   'django_commands',
)

Invoke ./manage.py help to verify that the commands are available and ./manage.py help commandname for more specific usage instructions.

The commands have been created for automating remote deployments with Fabric.

See example fabfile and project setup guidelines.

The workflow would be as follows:

• add a feature of fix a bug on git branch devel

• deploy to remote staging server:

  fab -H user@host:port deploy:stage
  

• when client is happy with the change, merge it to master

• deploy to remote production server:

  fab -H user@host:port deploy:live
  

• fetch database content and uploaded files from remote server as needed:

  fab -H user@host:port fetch_data:live