I’ve grown to dislike Django-Nose. It’s been over three months since Django 1.8 has been released and they still don’t have a release that fully supports it. These are the advantages they currently tout: Testing just your apps by default, not all the standard ones that happen to be in INSTALLED_APPS The Django test runner…
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[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…
Read More Django management commands and verbosityWith 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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When building high performance Django sites, keeping the number of queries down is essential. And just like controlling technical debt and maintaining test coverage, being successful means making monitoring queries a natural part of your workflow. If your momentum has to be stopped to examine database queries, you’re not going to do it. The solution…
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Tips n’ tricks I’ve picked up over the years for managing technical debt, specifically for large Django projects.
Read More Managing Technical Debt in Django ProjectsAt PyCon 2014, I learned about a package called “needle” from Julien Phalip’s talk, Advanced techniques for Web functional testing. When I tried using it with a Django project, I immediately ran into problems. The answer turned out to be “ignore the documentation”.
Read More How to Ignore the Needle DocsI’m usually very hesitant to use PostGIS because it makes testing more difficult. Instead of an in-memory sqlite database, you have to spin up and down a database instead. I decided to do it anyways, and then I forgot I had Travis CI on this project and every commit emailed me a reminder of my…
Read More Using Travis CI with your GeoDjango projectIf you examine the repo, you’ll see it’s a Django app; and the Procfile and requirements.txt would make you think the app itself was deployed on Heroku, but you would be wrong! You may be surprised to find out that the Elevators Explorer is a static HTML app. Or maybe not if you read the…
Read More Dissecting Elevators Part 8: deploying