Gitpod django cookiecutter sample

A gitpod sample configured to quickly set up production ready django applications in the cloud using cookiecutter-django.

Getting Started

Click the button below to start the workspace

Follow all the onscreen prompts accordingly, and when setting custom values ensure that the project_folder and project_slug are the same:

#default values are shown in square brackets.
project_folder[my_awesome_project]: 
project_name [My Awesome Project]: 
project_slug [my_awesome_project]: 

Postgres is already enabled in the workspace, so all you need to do is create a database with the same name as project_slug value you entered during setup:

psql -U gitpod
CREATE DATABASE project_slug;

Now for it to work you need to define a DATABASE_URL variable. To set the environmental variable type the following in the terminal:

export DATABASE_URL=postgres://gitpod@localhost:5432/my_awesome_project

If you prefer to use a .env file, don't forget to define the DJANGO_READ_DOT_ENV_FILE variable. The default database connection string looks like this postgres:///dbname the one you define should be in this format postgres://user@localhost:port/dbname. Based on the defaults your .env file should look like this:

DATABASE_URL=postgres://gitpod@localhost:5432/my_awesome_project

And finally migrate your database:

python manage.py migrate

Happy coding!!!