Django-Pal

Django-Pal does two things.

1. It creates a Django project based on the Django project template in http://github.com/suneel0101/django-foundation.
2. Then, it deploys to Heroku.

Instructions to Create and Deploy

1. git clone git://github.com/suneel0101/django-pal.git && cd django-pal
2. python create.py --path="/path/to/proj/directory/" --name="your-project-name"

Now, your application is deployed to Heroku. Now, setup your local development enviornment:

3. cd /path/to/proj/directory
4. virtualenv venv --distribute && . venv/bin/activate
5. make

Step 5 will install requirements within your virtualenv and sync and migrate the database. Finally, it will runserver.

Addons

You may find the following addons helpful in developing your application. Adding them is as easy as including a flag in the create command. Use as many of the following as you like.

All Addons

run the create command with --all to get easily add all of the below addons.

Compass Project (with Twitter Bootstrap)

run the create command with --compass

This will create a compass project under media/ and will also have compass version of Twitter Bootstrap already imported into screen.scss as per https://github.com/vwall/compass-twitter-bootstrap.

Emailer App (with automatic Sendgrid integration)

run the create command with --emailer

This will create a django-emailer app (https://github.com/suneel0101/django-emailer) called emailer under apps/

Redis (with automatic Heroku Redis To Go integration)

run the create command with --redis

This will add a file under apps/util called rediz.py that has some basic and useful helpers for Redis usage (https://github.com/suneel0101/django-pal-redis-helper)

NewRelic

run the create command with --newrelic

This will automatically add free NewRelic tracking to your web application. Checkout the NewRelic on Heroku here: https://addons.heroku.com/newrelic.

Dependencies

1. Heroku account and toolbelt
2. git
3. pip