Re: Help - Django App on Heroku & local dev machine

Clone the app locally

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1872113/how-do-i-clone-a-github-project-to-run-locally

Create a virtualenv

http://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/virtualenv.html#usage

Install your requirements

$ pip -r your_app_path/requirements.txt

Run the dev server

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/django-admin/#runserver-port-or-address-port

To get the code back on the machine, look for a fabfile and use it, or just push to origin and update it manually over SSH.

If you don't already know Python or Django, I'd recommend

http://www.diveintopython.net/

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/intro/tutorial01/

K

On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 7:03:04 AM UTC-7, Dr Shauny wrote:

Hi,

I have a Django app already deployed and fully functional on Heroku. The app was purchased from a third party that transferred the codebase via github.

I need to make changes and redeploy the app but understand that this is not possible (or advisable) directly from github itself.

I therefore need to set up a local development environment for the app from where I can deploy changes to the github repository and also deploy updates to the installation on Heroku.

Heroku have an article that explains how to create a new app and upload this to Heroku ("Getting started with Django on Heroku") , however many of the details appear to be for a new app rather than for my situation where I already have a fully functional app. I am unsure as to what I should and shouldnt do as I am unclear about the relevancy of some of the instructions.

Can anyone walk me through the process of transferring an app from github to a local machine so that I can dev on the local machine. OS would be ubuntu 12.04 and ideally want to set up dev and prod repos on github (and eventually dev and prod apps on heroku). I believe I have done most of the local work with postgres, python virtualenv, heroku and django toolbelts etc, but would really appreciate an expert to bounce some queries off?

Anyone able to help?

S.

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