On 7/19/07, Stefan Matthias Aust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) It is important for me to recreate my environment from scratch > (that is, from the VCS). I'd like to have a working application after > calling "syncdb". For my own application, I've create an initial_data > fixture. But I'd like to recreate users and permissions, too.
If you don't mind calling manage.py loaddata a few more times, yes. The parameter there is the name of the fixture, *not* the name of an app. http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/django-admin/#loaddata-fixture-fixture Fixtures in other dirs: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/settings/#fixture-dirs ... > it seems that > "syncdb" always asks for an admin account on the console. Can I > somehow suppress that question? Instead, I'd like to load some saved > fixture. --noinput http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/django-admin/#noinput > What's the recommended way to access models from outside of views? > What you have is pretty good, but do this, too, in order to make sure all models are loaded (so that descriptors for relationships are contributed to reverse models: from django.db.models import get_models get_models() > 3) I need to create an object with a unique random id - http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/163604 > "is enforced at the database level" but it unfortunately > does not describe what happens if the constraint is violated. Will > this always raise an IntegrityError? Yes. It just doesn't let you insert dupes; there is no id-generation fallback (unless it's an autofield). ... Leaving #4 unanswered; your understanding seems correct. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
