pinax-satchmo-buildout

This project aims to kick start websites using pinax and satchmo, providing the core buildout.cfg and settings files to get new projects up and running.

The buildout will create a new website using the Django 1.1, pinax from git, and satchmo from hg.

There is a sample website project based off pinax social_project which intergrates the satchmo blocks into the base.html template.

Requirements

• python-dev
• virtualenv
• git
• mercurial
• svn

Install

• Checkout this project to any path

• Create newproject directory :

  mkdir newproject
  cd newproject

• Execute create-site.sh :

  INSTALL_DIR/create-site.sh

• Edit website/settings.py and set database details.

  See the pinax and satchmo documentation for more configuration options.

  http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/svn/new_installation.html

  http://pinaxproject.com/docs/dev/customization.html

• You need to patch the django_friends models.py to resolve a conflict with a satchmo model.:

  all_src/friends/models.py

  edit #45:

  users = models.ManyToManyField(User)

  add a related name:

  users = models.ManyToManyField(User, related_name="contacts")

• syncdb :

  bin/django syncdb

• build_media :

  bin/django build_media --all

• runserver using development settings :

  bin/django runserver

Post install

It may be helpful to load the satchmo sample data to have something to work with.

load sample locale text :

bin/django satchmo_load_l10n

load sample store :

bin/django satchmo_load_store

Customize the buildout

If you want to create a site using a modified buildout.cfg, put the buildout.cfg at the root of the project and run create-site.sh. The script will see your buildout.cfg and not overwrite it.

It is often a good idea to set a path for download-cache in the main buildout configuration. See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout#using-a-download-cache

By default buildout will store eggs in the eggs directory of the project structure. Using a common eggs directory allows projects to share the same eggs and makes builds much quicker.

Set the eggs-directory in the main buildout configuration to a writeable path. Make sure the path exists before you run buildout.

For more details on zc.buildout see:

• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout
• http://grok.zope.org/documentation/tutorial/introduction-to-zc.buildout
• http://code.google.com/p/django-buildout/
• http://github.com/pinax/pinax-buildout/tree/master
• http://github.com/cshenton/pinax/blob/481ba59b677d5191c6e4bce54361c4aae0d5ca5e/buildout.cfg