novice question

[geomajor56]

I'm kind of new to Python/Django and this cookiecutter looks like it could save me. I've bought both of your books and I'm trying to stick to one particular school/concept. In your docs you say this won't work with Apache/mod_wsgi due to environment variables. Unfortunately thats the only way I know to deploy on Webfaction. Is it somewhat painless to overcome the constraint?

thanks in advance,

Michael

[pydanny]

Unfortunately, there is no painless or even somewhat painless way to work around this issue. At least with cookiecutter-django and it's dependency on django-configurations. See #74, which this ticket arguably duplicates.

For what it's worth, this is why in Two Scoops of Django 1.6 we advocate Apache projects employ secrets files. Perhaps django-configurations will support that at some point.

[geomajor56]

Thanks for the quick reply. Looks like Plan B is in order. I don't have one
so I should probably start researching. From a Python/Django newb,
"Deploying Django is hell!!!"

thanks again,

Michael

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Daniel Greenfeld
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Closed #79 #79.

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[pydanny]

Michael, I agree that deployment for Django (and Python) is a royal pain. Hence my advice: "Deploy with a PaaS".

Not using a PaaS means you are playing with an ungainly process that doesn't serve you any real purpose except causing you aggravation. Me, if I'm not using a PaaS, I'm doing it with a Salt or Ansible setup that someone else wrote.

One last thing: Webfaction might be cheap, but Heroku and PythonAnywhere have FREE developer levels.

[pydanny]

It's dated now, but http://pydanny.com/you-should-heroku.html definately comes to mind. 😉

[geomajor56]

Thanks for the heads up,playing with PythonAnywhere, nice.

If you don't mind, I'm struggling horribly with creating a forms in
general. In particular, a model based form(ModelForm). I've used Vanilla
Views with some success via their
examplehttps://github.com/tomchristie/django-vanilla-views/tree/master/example.
But in your book you say Vanilla Views can be a bit quirky so I'd like to
stay away from it.

My question is, is it possible to alter the layout the models fields for
Creating and Editing? I feel like I'm missing a big picture somewhere. Is
crispy-forms what I'm looking for, or is it floppy-forms? , or plain old
Django? I can't seem to find any thorough enough examples for a noob like
me.

If you could point me to any kind of reference, that would be great. I've
been stuck on this for a few days and it would be most satisfying do have a
not so foggy path to follow.

again, thanks in advance,

Michael

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Daniel Greenfeld
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It's dated now, but http://pydanny.com/you-should-heroku.html definately
comes to mind. [image: 😉]

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/79#issuecomment-35938175
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