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Ren and Stimpy

[update: This post has been corrected, thanks to my commenters for your feedback] Every Django management command gets the verbosity option for free. You may recognize this: optional arguments: -h, –help show this help message and exit -v {0,1,2,3}, –verbosity {0,1,2,3} Verbosity level; 0=minimal output, 1=normal output, 2=verbose output, 3=very verbose output We rarely use…

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With 12factor style environment configs, it’s a very easy to accidentally connect to your production database when you think you’re connecting to dev. Here’s a simple guard you can add to make sure your  DATABASE_URL isn’t somehow pointed to someplace it’s not supposed to (assuming you’re using Amazon AWS): bash: if [[ ${DATABASE_URL} == *”amazonaws”*…

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