SheepDogInc / django-base

Base Application for Sheepdog Django Projects

Using this template

To create a new project with this template, run the following command:

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/SheepDogInc/django-base/master/new_project.sh)

This section can be removed once you are done.

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{{ project_name }}

Getting Bootstrapped

Automatically

Run ./setup.sh.

Manually

Clone & create virtual env:

git clone [e-mail]:SheepDogInc/{{ project_name }}.git {{ project_name }}
cd {{ project_name }}/
mkvirtualenv {{ project_name }}

Install Python & Node dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt
npm install

Add local Node modules to your $PATH in virtualenv's postactivate script:

printf 'export PATH=%s/node_modules/.bin:$PATH\n' `pwd` >> $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/postactivate
workon {{ project_name }}

Install CSS & JS dependencies:

bower install

Finish up:

./manage.py syncdb
./manage.py migrate

Common problems

• Make sure there is no dynamic content inside compress tags.

Heroku-specific stuff

For heroku deployments, use a buildback which knows about combining node and python. Otherwise, Heroku will auto-detect one w/o the other and requirements will not be installed.

heroku config:set BUILDPACK_URL='https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python' # Node not needed
heroku config:set BUILDPACK_URL='https://github.com/thurloat/heroku-buildpack-python.git' # Node needed

heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev

Set up an S3 root bucket (for the project, not for each deployment). Confirm the bucket name matches that in settings/heroku/base.py. Add an IAM user for each deployment, and give it copy an appropriate permissions from another project. Last, set the heroku config variables:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID          # use a project-specific one!!
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
SECRET_KEY                 # Django secret key

Confirm the following is set:

DATABASE_URL