Django - Mac OSX Workflow - Questions on efficient development methodologies

Question

I am going to outline my workflow and I would like some suggestions on how to improve the efficiency of this. It seems right now a bit cumbersome and repetitive (something I ha

Answer 1

Thanks to everyone who read this and is looking for a better way. I think unit tests are definately the simpler approach.

So according to the docs you simply need to create a file tests.py parallel to models.py and put tests in there.

from django.test import TestCase
from perforce.models import P4User, P4Client

class ModelTests(TestCase):
  def setUp(self):
    self.p4 = P4.P4()
    self.p4.connect()

  def test_BasicP4(self):
    """
    Make sure we are running 2009.1 == 65
    """
    self.failUnlessEqual(self.p4.api_level, 65)

  def test_P4User_get_or_retrieve(self):
    """
    This will simply verify we can get a user and push it into the model
    """
    user = self.p4.run(("users"))[0]
    dbuser = P4User.objects.get_or_retrieve(user.get('User'))

    # Did it get loaded into the db?
    self.assertEqual(dbuser[1], True)

    # Do it again but hey it already exists..
    dbuser = P4User.objects.get_or_retrieve(user.get('User'))
    # Did it get loaded into the db?
    self.assertEqual(dbuser[1], False)

    # Verify one field of the data matches
    dbuser = dbuser[0]
    self.assertEqual(dbuser.email, user.get("Email"))

Now you can simply fire up the terminal and do python manage.py test and that will run the tests but again that's a pretty limited view and still requires you to swap in/out of programs.. So here is how you do this directly from Textmate using ⌘R.

Add an import line at the top and a few line at the bottom.

from django.test.simple import run_tests
#
# Unit tests from above
#
if __name__ == '__main__':
  run_tests(None, verbosity=1, interactive=False)

And now ⌘R will work directly from TextMate.