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The most commonly used Rails commands and their Django equivalents Rails Django rails console manage.py shell rails server manage.py runserver rake None rails generate None rails dbconsole manage.py dbshell rails app_name django-admin.py startproject/manage.py startapp rake db:create manage.py syncdb The salient points to note are, Django has all commands via manage.py, Rails has it broken into [...]
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Django abstracts most of the actions you would be doing with the Database. What it doesn’t abstracts, and doesn’t try to abstract is the Database modelling part. This is a quick tutorial describing to how model your data in Django models.py, and how to access and modify them. Consider a hypothetical HR department, which wants [...]
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Summary: How to integrate a non Django database system in your Django code, using WordPress as example. The completed code is available at github or you can see some screnshots Though there are quite a few good Django blog applications, our blog is based on WordPress. A number of plugin’s make moving to a Django [...]
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Forms are one of the best features of Django. (After models, admin, url routing etc ). Here is a quick tutorial describing how to do things with Django forms. Basic form Prob. You want to show a form, validate it and display it. Ans. Create a simple form. class UserForm(forms.Form): username = forms.CharField() joined_on = [...]
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twitter ready version: We have released a Django forum application, with some cool features not in any other Django based forum. You can get it here or see it in action. blog version There are quite a few Django based forum applications, so why another? Its a bit of a rhetorical question, as the answer [...]
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What is bpython? bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Unix-like operating system. says the bpython home page. It provides syntax highlighting, auto completion, auto-indentation and such stuff. Unlike iPython, which implements then entire shell functions and emulates the standard python shell, and adds enhancements, bpython just adds features on top of [...]
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Foss.in is without doubt India’s largest FOSS technology conference. Lakshman gave a talk today on “Python metaclasses and how Django uses them”. Here are the slides from that talk. Doing magic with python metaclassesView more documents from Usware Technologies. [Edit] Some reactions, http://twitter.com/jaideep2588/status/6295483833 http://twitter.com/kunalbharati/status/6296572939 And the talk images, http://twitpic.com/rxhn7 You should follow us on twitter [...]
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This is not yet another Django vs Rails blog post. It is a compilation of notes I made working with Django after having worked on Rails for years. In this post I want to give a brief introduction to Django project layout from a Rails developer point of view, on what is there, what is [...]
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Django has three builtin template loaders which are used to get the templates for rendering. TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( ‘django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source’, ‘django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source’, # ‘django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source’, ) Writing your template loader is a awfuly easy. It is a callable which Returns a tuple of (openfile, filename) if it can find the template. Raise TemplateDoesNotExist if the templates cannot be [...]
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