In the spirit of playdoh, this project aims to provide a base Django app full of best-practices and pre-installed applications.
It also includes a rudimentary makefile that helps get things started and also plays nice with setuptools. That means you can actually use the standard python setup method of installation, giving you a command line tool to run the server.
All production settings should be handled via the environment, which means you can leave the app installed in your python library and just use the cli tool. More exmaples of this to follow.
Your first order of business is to rename some things. Unless your project is also called outline, you'll likely want to rename things. The easiest way to get started is:
make name="<myproject_name>" rename
That should do all the important replacements. The final step will be removing the .git folder and initializing your own repository and lastly tweaking the setup.py file, else you're likely to give me credit for your project and to provide a pretty terribly confusing description to PyPI if your project ever lands there.
Powered by the ubiquitous Makefile ... this should be pretty easy:
- make install
- make run
- open your browser to: http://127.0.0.1:45000
Of course, we could provide a vagrant file and a provisoner and all that jazz. But I'd rather provide a make file for installing everything into a venv and let you muck about with libraries. Those of you on Linux shouldn't have too much trouble installing the requisite development libraries below. The names are for debian-based distros, but they exist for all major distros.
On Mac it may be a little tricker. Homebrew will get you quite far, but first you have to install the bloated XCode and the CLI tools.
The libraries are:
- libmemcached-dev
- libfreetype6-dev
- libjpeg-dev