Development mode¶
Introduction¶
One of the key feature of django duke is to provide a sandboxed development environment which provide some shortcuts and utilities to make it easier to work with django.
To activate the development environment on a project managed by duke, simply go in the project folder and type duke dev:
user@host$: cd my-project-name/
user@host$: duke dev
user@host|myprojectname:~/.../trunk/my-project-name$:
Once the development environment is activated, the shell prompt should be prefixed with the project’s name to indicate that you are working within a sandboxed environment.
The distinction is important because the development environment extends your shell with new commands and does some magic to make sure you are working within the sandbox.
For example, if you type the command python in dev mode, the Python interpreter executed isn’t the system wide python interpreter (usually /usr/bin/python). Instead it will call the python interpreter sandboxed in my-project-name/.duke/bin/python.
The environment also provide shortcuts and commands to ease the development process.
Commands & shortcuts¶
| Command | Description |
| buildout | Run buildout to build or rebuild your environment |
| dbshell | Run the database shell (alias for django runserver) |
| dev | Run the duke development environement |
| python | Run the python environement |
| runserver | Run the dev server (alias for django runserver) |
| shell | Run a python shell* (alias for django shell) |
| syncdb | Synchronize database (alias for django syncdb) |
| init | Create the duke environement (run buildout after using init) |
| startproject | Create a new django project |
| customize | Copy the config of duke to ~/.duke (see Customisation) |
| help | Print all the commandes |
* if ipython is install, ipython will be ruen instead of python