I implore you to read the howto docs here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/ In short: STATIC_ROOT is only used if you call the collectstatic manangement command. It’s not needed to add the directory to the STATICFILES_DIRS setting to serve your static files! During development (when the automatic serving view is used) staticfiles will automatically look for static files … Read more
Use: python manage.py migrate –run-syncdb As stated in this comment by Benyamin Jafari: –run-syncdb – Creates tables for apps without migrations. Also don’t forget to specity app path. For example: python manage.py makemigrations app python manage.py migrate app
Reportlab is great if you’re generating very dynamic PDFs and need to programmatically control all of it: data and layout. To just fill out forms in existing PDFs, reportlab is overkill and you’ll basically have to rebuild the PDF from scratch in reportlab instead of just taking a PDF with a form that’s already been … Read more
Django 1.6 has added persistent connections support (link to doc for latest stable Django ): Persistent connections avoid the overhead of re-establishing a connection to the database in each request. They’re controlled by the CONN_MAX_AGE parameter which defines the maximum lifetime of a connection. It can be set independently for each database.
Conditional aggregation in Django 2.0 allows you to further reduce the amount of faff this has been in the past. This will also use Postgres’ filter logic, which is somewhat faster than a sum-case (I’ve seen numbers like 20-30% bandied around). Anyway, in your case, we’re looking at something as simple as: from django.db.models import … Read more
It looks like you were on the right track – get_FOO_display() is most certainly what you want: In templates, you don’t include () in the name of a method. Do the following: {{ person.get_gender_display }}
Your User object is linked to the Group object through a ManyToMany relationship. You can thereby apply the filter method to user.groups. So, to check if a given User is in a certain group (“Member” for the example), just do this : def is_member(user): return user.groups.filter(name=”Member”).exists() If you want to check if a given user … Read more
I know this is a solved answer already, but as per django >= 1.3 there’s a new logging setting. Moving from old to new is not automatic, so I thought i’ll write it down here. And of course checkout the django doc for some more. This is the basic conf, created by default with django-admin … Read more
If you reference User directly, your code will not work in projects where the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting has been changed to a different user model. A more generic way to create the user would be: echo “from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model; User = get_user_model(); User.objects.create_superuser(‘admin’, ‘[email protected]’, ‘password’)” | python manage.py shell ORIGINAL ANSWER Here there is a … Read more
You have to run the development server such that it listens on the interface to your network. E.g. python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 listens on every interface on port 8000. It doesn’t matter whether you access the webserver with the IP or the hostname. I guess you are still in your own LAN. If you really … Read more