Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Re: Django IDE : how to start the devserver in an editor?

MrMuffin,

You've also have the editra group where the author use to answering
quickly all of the questions posted there:
https://groups.google.com/group/editra?hl=en

I like your ideas and features to add into the plugin for django.

Good luck !

Roberto

On Mar 30, 4:21 pm, MrMuffin <thomas.weh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I`m trying to develop a simple plugin[0] for the Editra[1] editor for
> django development. Right now it can create django projects and apps
> from within the editor. The editor is based on wxPython and I want to
> start the devserver from within the editor, show a simple form with
> the option to stop or kill/restart the server.
>
> The goal is to minimize the need to do repetetive tasks in the console/
> shell. My reason for doing this is that I`m working in a Microsoft
> only company where you seldom do stuff using the command line. Selling
> django is hard when I`m in and out of the shell/command line to start/
> restart the server, syncdb, migrate etc. To make the job of selling
> django to my co-workers and hopefully make development easier ( at
> least for the django developers who likes to work in an IDE ) I`ve
> started the work on a plugin for Editra. Right now the plugin adds a
> menu item called Django with two subitems; create project and create
> app. A context menu is in the works which will give different options
> depending on the content of the file being edited; right click in a
> window holding settings.py will give you the option to start the
> server, call syncdb, migrate etc. A right click in views.py will give
> you options to help you generate views, in models.py scaffolding,
> generation of admin.py etc.
>
> The only thing I cannot get my head around is how to start/kill/
> restart the devserver from inside the app. If anybody has any
> information about this I`d be very grateful. When the plugin is more
> stable and has a few more features I`ll post something, perhaps do a
> screencast as well. Any help, input, comments or ideas are
> appreciated.
>
> NB! I know the main problem here is not django specific, more
> wxpython, but I post the message here because I hope this project
> might be of interest to other django developers as well.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Weholt
>
> [0]https://bitbucket.org/weholt/editra.djangomanagement
> [1]http://editra.org/

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