What's the equivalent to django-flatpages in Ruby on Rails?
How can I build a minimal CMS like Django does with django-flatpages? I'd prefer a built-in solution to a plugin. I heard of controller caching, does anyone know of another solution? ...
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How painful is a django project deployment to a live (staging) site?
Hi, I've getting quite fast with a small django project of mine, which I'm developing locally, of course. But, as I had never worked with django before, I'm not aware of what it implies to upload it and test it on a production server. And I'm quite curious, since I'm very eager to test an early release live. I know there is this documen...
Multiprogramming in Django, writing to the Database
Introduction I have the following code which checks to see if a similar model exists in the database, and if it does not it creates the new model: class BookProfile(): # ... def save(self, *args, **kwargs): uniqueConstraint = {'book_instance': self.book_instance, 'collection': self.collection} # Test for oth...
Trying to get django app to work with mod_wsgi on CentOS 5
I'm running CentOS 5, and am trying to get a django application working with mod_wsgi. I'm using .wsgi settings I got working on Ubuntu. I'm also using an alternate installation of python (/opt/python2.6/) since my django application needs >2.5 and the OS uses 2.3 Here is the error: [Thu Mar 04 10:52:15 2010] [error] [client 10.1.0.251...
JSON | Django passing python list
Hi, I'm trying to send a Python list in to client side (encoded as JSON), this is the code snippet which I have written: array_to_js = [vld_id, vld_error, False] array_to_js[2] = True jsonValidateReturn = simplejson.dumps(array_to_js) return HttpResponse(jsonValidateReturn, mimetype='application/json') So my question is how to access...
jQuery: Adding class to the li element after the link is clicked, and deselecting all other classes
Hi, I am generating menu with such tags: <div class="animatedtabs"> <ul> {% for item in menu_items %} <li><a href="{{ item.url }}" title="{{ item.name }}"><span>{{ item.name }}</span></a></li> {% endfor %} </ul> </div> What I want to do, I want to add class="selected" to li, after the link is clicked, and to remove al...
modelform "object not callable" error
Ok, so I'm fairly new to Django, but have been reading both the online django book and the djangoproject documentation, but I can't seem to figure this error out: I've got an 'Orders' model: class Orders(models.Model): client_id = models.ForeignKey(Client) order_date = models.DateField(auto_now_add = True) due_date = models...
Django : proper way to use model, duplicates!
Hello, I have a question about the proper, best way to manage the model. I am relative newbie to django, so I think I need to read more docs, tutorials,etc (suggestions for this would be cool!). Anyway, this is my question : I have a python web crawler, that is "connected" with django model. Crawling is done once a day, so its really...
How to display a foreign key fields in the objects listing of the Django admin?
hi i have the following models setup class Player(models.Model): #slug = models.slugField(max_length=200) Player_Name = models.CharField(max_length=100) Nick = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True) Jersy_Number = models.IntegerField() Team_id = models.ForeignKey('Team') Postion_Choices = ( ('M', ...
Testing a Django view cause "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'handler500'" error
I just wanted to start testing a Django view using the code below: from django.test.client import Client c = Client() response = c.get('/search/keyword') print response.content It just throws out following error message: "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/test/client.py", line 286, in get response = self.request(**r) F...
Django: Group by?
I'm looking for something like the following: previous_invoices = Invoice.objects.filter(is_open=False).order_by('-created').group_by('user') (group_by() doesn't exist) This would find the most recently closed invoice for each user. This aggregation API seems to let you do stuff like this for counts and sums, but I don't need a coun...
Django/piston + Silverlight, PUT/DELETE?
I am working on a Silverlight project that uses Django on the server using piston for the REST API. I understand that Silverlight doesn't support the PUT and DELETE http verbs. Is there another way i can pass these kinds of commands to piston? ...
Putting a block inside another in Django
I have a Django template that I want to extend in multiple places. In some the div must be inside a form, and in others it must not be. To do this I put a block above and below the div so I could add and in them respectively. Desired: <form> <div class="my_div"> {% block div_content %} ... {% endblock %} </div> </form> Te...
Django App for Academic Journal?
I'm looking a Django app I'm looking for an app that that allows for management and integration of footnotes for articles just wondering if anyone had seen something around... ...
Django admin site auto populate combo box based on input
hi i have to following model class Match(models.Model): Team_one = models.ForeignKey('Team', related_name='Team_one') Team_two = models.ForeignKey('Team', related_name='Team_two') Stadium = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True) Start_time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=False, auto_now=False, blank=True...
django ifequal naturalday
I'm not sure why, but this condition will never evaluate True for me. I'm feeding it datetime.today() in the urls file. Am I missing something? Template: {% load humanize %} {{ entry.date|naturalday }} {# Evals to "today" #} {% ifequal entry.date|naturalday "today" %} True {{ entry.date|date:"fA"|lower }} {{ entry.date|natur...
In plain English, what are Django generic views?
The first two paragraphs of this page explain that generic views are supposed to make my life easier, less monotonous, and make me more attractive to women (I made up that last one): http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/generic-views/#topics-generic-views I'm all for improving my life, but what do generic views actually do? It s...
Django unable to update model
i have the following function to override the default save function in a model match def save(self, *args, **kwargs): if self.Match_Status == "F": Team.objects.filter(pk=self.Team_one.id).update(Played=F('Played')+1) Team.objects.filter(pk=self.Team_two.id).update(Played=F('Played')+1) if self.Winner !="": ...
Would this hack for per-object permissions in django work?
According to the documentation, a class can have the meta option permissions, described as such: Options.permissions Extra permissions to enter into the permissions table when creating this object. Add, delete and change permissions are automatically created for each object that has admin set. This example specifies an extra permiss...
How to develop modular web UIs with Django?
When doing larger sites in "big business", you most probalbly work in a team with several developers. Let's say dev A makes a form to insert new user data, B creates a user list, C makes some privilege administration and D does crazy statistic graphs work with image generation and so on. Each dev begins to develop his own component, cr...