Django development database

Tool to automatically create a development database for local development by sampling your production database. It maintains referential integrity by looking up the dependencies for the selected rows.

Installation

  pip install dev_db

Add dev_db to your installed apps

Customize the CreateDevDB class

DEV_DB_CREATOR = 'dev_db.creator.DevDBCreator'
# for fashiolista
DEV_DB_CREATOR = 'framework.dev_db_creator.FashiolistaDBCreator'

Creating the data

  python manage.py create_dev_db -o development_data.json
  gzip development_data.json

Creating the test fixture takes about 5-10 minutes

Loading the data

start with an empty db on local called test_fashiolista_local

1. python manage.py syncdb --all --noinput
2. python manage.py migrate --fake --noinput
3. Truncate contenttype and permission tables
4. python manage.py loaddata development_data.json.gz --traceback -v2

These four steps are also wrapped in the load_dev_db command. So simply run (This assumes you don't have the database yet, it wont drop it for you)

  python manage.py load_dev_db

Loading the fixture takes about 2 minutes

(be sure to run pgtune on your local postgres, otherwise it might take longer)

Running tests

From the dev_db_example directory run

	python manage.py test dev_db