light template/skeleton for getting setting up a django project with MySql (or whatever).

setting up projects is pretty boring, this makes it faster provides for some level of consistency across projects and streamlines setup of my prefered django project structure

in your terminal run:

django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/benavram/go_django/archive/master.zip --extension=py,gitignore project_name

built for django 1.8

install in a virtualenv from the termnal using the command line above (make sure you change project_name to your project's name)

I like to move the .gitignore and requirements.txt files to the parent directory. I also create the media and static roots there. ends up looking something like this (running moveit.py and them ../main.py should do the same thing):

.
├── virtualenv/
   ├── project_name/
        ├── project_name/
            ├── settings/
        ├── app_name/
        ├── static_files/
            ├── media/
            ├── static/
                ├── css/
                ├── fonts/
                ├── img/
                ├── js/
        ├── templates/
   ├── static/
        ├── media_root/
        ├── static_root/
.

install requirements if you want - currently limited to django==1.8 and django-debug-toolbar>=1.3.0. This project setup uses MySql, but I tend to set that up independently because it can be a pain in the ass/platform dependent.

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pip install -r requirements.txt

setup your database and run migrations. You can update/add connection settings in project_name/setttings/cred.py

python manage.py migrate

in creating this I took a lot of ideas from the folllowing sources:

https://github.com/codingforentrepreneurs

https://github.com/lincolnloop/django-layout

https://github.com/jcalazan/django-project-template

freely distributable under the terms of the license.