Running django tests with sqlite

Question

I use Postgres for production and development, but I\'d like to use sqlite to run some tests. I don\'t see an easy way to configure one engine for tests and another for dev

Answer 1

You could try a setup similar to what is suggested here by Zachary Voase: http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/2010/02/03/django-project-conventions/

(The entire post is useful, but scroll down to the section on "Settings" for the part most relevant here.)

Zach's strategy is to create a settings folder and marks it as a python package using a __init__.py file. You can then have a separate sub-module for each of your deployment types, structured as follows:

settings/
|-- __init__.py     # Empty; makes this a Python package
|-- common.py       # All the common settings are defined here
|-- development.py  # Settings for development
|-- production.py   # Settings for production
|-- staging.py      # Settings for staging

Following this concept, you could set up a deployment for postgres and a separate deployment for sqlite, and separate the configurations for each as needed.