cookiecutter-django
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A cookiecutter_ template for Django.

.. _cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter

Features
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* Cutting edge: For Django 1.6 and other bleeding edge stuff
* Twitter Bootstrap 3
* AngularJS
* Registration via django-allauth
* User avatars via django-avatar
* Procfile for deploying to Heroku
* Heroku optimized requirements
* Basic caching setup

Constraints
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* Only maintained 3rd party libraries are used.
* PostgreSQL everywhere
* Environment variables for configuration (This won't work with Apache/mod_wsgi)

Caution: Bleeding Edge Requirements
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The cookiecutter-django project is bleeding edge in that it uses unreleased versions of several packages like Django,
South, django-crispy-forms, django-avatar, and more. 

Consider yourself warned.

Usage
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Let's pretend you want to create a Django project called "redditclone". Rather than using `startproject`
and then editing the results to include your name, email, and various configuration issues that always get forgotten until the worst possible moment, get cookiecutter_ to do all the work.

First, get cookiecutter. Trust me, it's awesome::

    $ pip install cookiecutter

Now run it against this repo::

    $ cookiecutter https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django.git

You'll be prompted for some questions, answer them, then it will create a Django project for you.


**Warning**: After this point, change 'Daniel Greenfeld', 'pydanny', etc to your own information.

It prompts you for questions. Answer them::

    Cloning into 'cookiecutter-django'...
    remote: Counting objects: 550, done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (310/310), done.
    remote: Total 550 (delta 283), reused 479 (delta 222)
    Receiving objects: 100% (550/550), 127.66 KiB | 58 KiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (283/283), done.
    project_name (default is "project_name")? redditclone
    repo_name (default is "repo_name")? redditclone       
    author_name (default is "Your Name")? Daniel Greenfeld
    email (default is "Your email")? pydanny@gmail.com
    description (default is "A short description of the project.")? A reddit clone.
    year (default is "Current year")? 2013
    domain_name (default is "Domain name")? 


Enter the project and take a look around::

    $ cd redditclone/
    $ ls

Create a GitHub repo and push it there::

    $ git init
    $ git add .
    $ git commit -m "first awesome commit"
    $ git remote add origin git@github.com:pydanny/redditclone.git
    $ git push -u origin master

Now take a look at your repo. Awesome, right?

If you check out your new application, you will see that you can find documentation in the "docs" directory that explains everything about your app as it exists in its initial cookiecutter state, including how to deploy it. 

If you want to read the documentation from your browser instead of a text editing window, you'll have to compile it first. First, make sure that you have all of the local packages that you need (including the ones you need to generate this documentation) by running "pip install -r requirements/local.txt". Go into the docs directory and run "make html". That will generate html from the .rst files. If you point your browser to your local variant of "/path/to/my_cookiecutter_project/docs/_build/html/index.html".

So, you now have a simple django application. Go forth and code!

"Your Stuff"
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Scattered throughout the Python and HTML of this project are places marked with "your stuff". This is where third-party libraries are to be integrated with your project.

Releases
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Want a stable release? You can find them at https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/releases

**note**: Cookiecutter won't support tagged releases until 0.7.0 comes out, which should be any day! Which means, if you want to use a 
tagged release of cookiecutter-django, then you have to install Cookiecutter directly from GitHub. To do that, follow these steps:

1. Enter your virtualenv.
2. Run these commands:

.. code-block:: bash
    
    (cookiecutter) $ git clone https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter.git
    (cookiecutter) cd cookiecutter
    (cookiecutter) python setup.py develop


Not Exactly What You Want?
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This is what I want. *It might not be what you want.* Don't worry, you have options:

Fork This
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If you have differences in your preferred setup, I encourage you to fork this to create your own version.
Once you have your fork working, let me know and I'll add it to a '*Similar Cookiecutter Templates*' list here.
It's up to you whether or not to rename your fork.

If you do rename your fork, I encourage you to submit it to the following places:

* cookiecutter_ so it gets listed in the README as a template. 
* The cookiecutter grid_ on Django Packages.

.. _cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
.. _grid: https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/cookiecutter/

Or Submit a Pull Request
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I also accept pull requests on this, if they're small, atomic, and if they make my own project development
experience better.