Configuration

This project uses Jannis Leidel‘s excellent django-configurations package to provide different settings for every environment it operates in:

• development (“dev” for short)
• testing
• staging
• production

For each of these exists a configuration class within the pyconde.settings module as well as a file within the requirements folder.

To work within one of these environments first install the necessary requirements:

$ pip install requirements/dev.txt

Now you have to specify the environment with the DJANGO_CONFIGURATION environment variables for Django to know what settings to use. To execute syncdb, for instance, within the “dev” environment you have to execute it like that:

$ DJANGO_CONFIGURATION=Dev python manage.py syncdb

There also exists one mandatory setting that has to be injected using an environment variable on each machine you want to run this project:

• DJANGO_SECRET_KEY which represents Django’s SECRET_KEY setting.

If you want to use PayMill for credit card payments you will also have to inject DJANGO_PAYMILL_PRIVATE_KEY and DJANGO_PAYMILL_PUBLIC_KEY. For details what other variables you can inject through the environment please take a look into the settings file and look for all the *Value properties as well as the django-configurations documentation which describes what syntax to use to inject them properly.