Django - How to deal with the paths in settings.py on collaborative projects

Question

I have just started a feasibility study on Django for my company and I have noticed the need for absolute paths on settings.py:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
   # Put string         


        

Answer 1

The alternative to using relative path from the settings.py file, is for each developer to have their own settings.py.

# settings.py
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    'c:\django\templates\',
)

# dev-x-settings.py
import settings
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    'd:\dev\django\project\templates\'
)

The dev-x-settings.py imports all the settings from the base file, and changes the bits and pieces they need to. Also very handy for maintaining a local sqlite database and the like.

We usually set out our settings as:

/settings/
    __init__.py
    production.py
    staging.py
    test.py
    dev-x.py
    dev-y.py

Then all you need to worry about is running the server and passing it the correct settings.py file.