cookiecutter-simple-django

A cookiecutter template for Django.

Description

Lighter version of the Daniel Greenfeld's cookiecutter-django.

It uses the latest stable versions and it only defines a skeleton which can be extended as needed.

Usage

Let's pretend you want to create a Django project called "redditclone". Rather than using startproject and then editing the results to include your name, email, and various configuration issues that always get forgotten until the worst possible moment, get cookiecutter to do all the work.

First, get cookiecutter. Trust me, it's awesome:

Set up your virtualenv:

$ cd <your-envs-folder>
$ virtualenv  --no-site-packages redditclone
$ cd redditclone
$ source bin/activate
$ pip install cookiecutter

Now run it against this repo:

$ cd <your-workspace>
$ cookiecutter  https://github.com/marcofucci/cookiecutter-simple-django.git

You'll be prompted for some questions, answer them, then it will create a Django project for you.

Warning: After this point, change 'Marco Fucci', etc to your own information.

It prompts you for questions. Answer them:

Cloning into 'cookiecutter-django'...
remote: Counting objects: 443, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (242/242), done.
remote: Total 443 (delta 196), reused 419 (delta 176)
Receiving objects: 100% (443/443), 119.91 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (196/196), done.
project_name (default is "project_name")? redditclone
repo_name (default is "repo_name")? redditclone
author_name (default is "Your Name")? Marco Fucci
email (default is "Your email")? <your-email>
description (default is "A short description of the project.")? A reddit clone
year (default is "Current year")? 2013
with_documentation (default is "yes")? yes

If you are using cookiecutter < 0.7 and you answered no to with_documentation, you might want to delete the docs folder. From version 0.7+, that folder is automatically deleted for you.

Create the database redditclone and then set up your project:

$ cd redditclone/
$ ls
$ pip install -r requirements/local.txt
$ python ./manage.py syncdb
$ python ./manage.py migrate
$ python ./manage.py runserver

and load localhost:8000/admin

Create a GitHub repo and push it there:

$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "first awesome commit!"
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:marcofucci/redditclone.git
$ git push -u origin master

Note: The requirements files don't define any package versions because it makes more sense for you to use the latest ones when you set up your project. After that point though, you really want to take note of the specific versions installed so that they are not going to get updated without you knowing it.

In order to do this, just activate your virtual environment, pip freeze it and update your requirements files:

$ activate <your-envs-folder>/redditclone/bin/activate
$ pip freeze
$ # now open requirements/* and note down the versions used.

Structure

The structure used should look quite familiar:

Requirements

The requirements folder contains a requirements file for each environment.

If you need to add a dependency please choose the right file.

Settings

The settings folder contains a settings file for each environment and the local settings should be gitignored.

If you take a look at base.py, you'll see that it includes the optional module local.py in the same folder. There you can override the local values and gitignore will exclude it from your commits.

The testing.py module is loaded automatically after base.py and local.py every time you run python ./manage.py test.

Apps

The apps folder should contain all your local django apps, this is to keep the structure of the project clean.

When it's time to python ./manage.py startapp <name>, just move the generated module to apps. If you want to know why this works, just take a look at the line:

sys.path.insert(0, root('apps'))

in settings/base.py.

Done!

Now, it's time to write the code!!!

Not Exactly What You Want?

This is what I want. It might not be what you want. Don't worry, you have options:

Fork This

If you have differences in your preferred setup, I encourage you to fork this to create your own version. Once you have your fork working, let me know and I'll add it to a 'Similar Cookiecutter Templates' list here. It's up to you whether or not to rename your fork.

If you do rename your fork, I encourage you to submit it to the following places:

• cookiecutter so it gets listed in the README as a template.
• The cookiecutter grid on Django Packages.

Or Submit a Pull Request

I also accept pull requests on this, if they're small, atomic, and if they make my own project development experience better.