25 articles tagged Django

This document describes how to share users created using Django’s auth system with other Django projects. It is not a hack; it simply makes use of the database router …

I want to serve two sub-domains from the same Django project—not unheard of, see the countless multi-lingual sites out there.  My goal, however, is specifically to share the whole project …

I had a Django issue with django-tinymce throwing errors on the spell checker.  Digging through the traceback revealed this error:

RuntimeError: dictionary not found for language 'en'

That’s weird …

As the “next page” button becomes a thing of the past, we look for new ways to provide streaming information. Enter infinite scroll. Implementing infinite scroll in Django is easy …

Sometimes it’s too easy to fire and forget when it comes to setting up FileFields in Django. Over time, a lot of media can become stale as objects are …

I’ve discovered, rather painfully, that setting up auth fixtures for testing requires a little care.  Problems result when South migrations interfere with fixture permissions.

The best way to dump …

I’m certainly not the first person to hit this caveat with django-haystack, as this error has been reported for over a year now. However, I had trouble finding a …

I’ve been a faithful TinyMCE user for years, but my blogging needs are growing and changing, and TinyMCE just isn’t a fit anymore.

My primary complaint has been …

This question comes up a lot, both in flame wars and in rational discussion. Why would you take time to build a blog application with Django when there are engines …

My website is at a point where I feel comfortable making the source code public. As of today, it is available as a public repository on GitHub.

I’ve taken …

This week I made an important addition to my tool kit. In the past I’ve focused primarily on ways to streamline backend development using tools like django_compressor, Sentry, and …

I had to break a bad habit where I always specify explicit cache timeout settings when building custom template tags. For example, I might have a news feed for the …

I’ve found the Facebook doesn’t do the best job of inferring general information from my blog articles on its own. Fortunately, the folks at FB provide a name-spaced …

Something I’ve put off dealing with (until today) is typography. As a little bit of history: the typewriter forced us to sacrifice certain printed media standards because of its …

It is fairly common practice to use a custom model manager when you have a certain field(s) that you know you will be filtering by a lot. I found …

I think to be a good Django citizen it would be appropriate to write tests ensuring that standard management commands work with your application. I thought of this after dealing …

Ok, Rails & company have a lot of great points—I love RSpec—but I’ve noticed a few areas where Rails can improve. Here, namely, I see a big difference in handling …

I’ve been taking a lot of time lately to determine a best practice way of incorporating a RESTful approach to Django views. My goal is to come up with …

This is part 3 in a 3 part series I’ve written on setting up a Django production site on Gentoo. In the first 2 parts I went over basic …

Taking a lot of inspiration from Ruby’s RSpec, I’ve established a new way to write my tests when doing TDD in Django. Using django-nose, factoryboy, and a few …

The Python elite will probably turn their noses up at me, but I just conjured an even better looking way to write my tests.

Using my utilities.py file I …

Just a quick note: when decorating Django tests you have to take care to name your return function using the same “test_” format otherwise an unmodified TestRunner will not discover …

If you have a Gmail account (or a Google Apps account), you can use it to send mail on your behalf just like any other email client. Remember to use …

Creating a snappy user experience can be easily obtained by implementing HTML5 navigation. Not only does it take less time to render only the needed Django templates, the browser has …

Writing tests and test-driven development has become all the rage lately; but before declaring assertions left and right, it’s important to consider where, why, and how you will write …