Run the server

• python manage.py runserver

Dependencies

• pip install -r requirments.txt --> This will install the dependencies
• pip freeze > requirements.txt --> This will update requirments.txt with your current virtualenv's libraries

Notes

Generic views

• in /polls/views.py --> from django.views import generic
• DetailView template --> <app name>/<model name>_detail.html
• ListView template --> <app name>/<model name>_list.html

Testing

• python manage.py test <app name> <-- run the test found in the <app name>
• response.context(<context object name>) will return the objects used to render the view
• response.content will return the html (or json etc)

Packaging the Polls app

• move the polls directory into a django-polls directory ousite of mysite
• create a file django-polls/README.rst
• create django-polls/setup.py
• create django-polls/MANIFEST.in <-- has recursive-include config commands
• cd into django-polls and run: python setup.py sdist <-- this builds the package
• pip install --user django-polls/dist/django-polls-0.1.tar.gz (remove --user to work with virtualenvwrapper

Resources

• VirtualEnv
• Django Tutorial