django-heroku-template

A starting point for django environments on heroku. In order to get started do 3 things:

Fork this repo and to a new repo called PROJECTNAME.

If you are me (the owner of this repo) you can't fork in github, so:

• create a new repo
• clone it locally

Then add this project as an upstream source and fetch / merge:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/far33d/django-heroku-template.git
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/master

move the django_heroku_template directory to PROJECTNAME

cd PROJECTNAME
git mv django_heroku_template PROJECTNAME

Find and replace any instance of django_heroku_template to PROJECTNAME in all files. As of now, the only files affected are:

./PROJECTNAME/settings.py
./PROJECTNAME/urls.py
./PROJECTNAME/wsgi.py
./manage.py
./Procfile

Create a database in postgres, and add a .env file in root directory to tell foreman where to look for the local database. Contents of .env file should be:

DATABASE_URL=postgres://localhost/DATABASE_NAME

Set up a virtualenv, activate it, and install all dependencies.

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt --allow-all-external

Here's some info on forking your own stuff....

http://bitdrift.com/post/4534738938/fork-your-own-project-on-github

Someday I'll make a script to actually do all this.