Tools for managing django projects

Overview

One often uses Django within Python's virtual environment and uses Git for version control. The following tools facilitate creation of a new project, as long as deployment process.

Used directory structure

projectname
|
+- pyvenv
|
+- source

• pyvenv contains Python virtual environment
• source contains source code - structured as when run django-admin startproject - this directory is also under Git version control

Commands

newproject.sh

Script for creating an empty project or cloning existing project from a git repo while also initializing python virtual environment. It is also used for the first time deployment on a server.

See newproject.sh -h for usage.

updateproject.sh

Script for updating existing project. Used mainly for deployment. It fetches changes from Git and then runs all usual tasks:

• compiles gettext's files
• collects static files
• runs migrations

usage: updateproject.sh [directory] where directory is a dir created using newproject.sh command and it contains pyvenv and source directories