On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 05:15 -0800, rodrigo wrote: > Hi, > > I am a complete Django newbie, and about to start developing my first > project. Some questions about development vs. production servers: > 1- do you usually develop on a local server and then move to a remote > production server once it's done? Or develop on the production server?
I think you'll find most people do at least the early development work locally, since it's so easy to do so (that's why the development webserver exists, for example). I know that's the way I work all the time: all development is done locally and the only production server "testing" I do is to make sure that after a rollout all the pages still work. > 2- how seamless is the move from one server to another? Do you usually > run into gotchas at this point? Or does it just-work, as most other > things in Django seem to? Most things should "just work". If you're developing against a different database server to the one you're going to be using in production, things can sometimes need tweaking. Again, from personal experience: I tend to use SQLite for my local work, because I can version-control the single database file as I try things out, etc. However, I use PostgreSQL in production for my blog and the first time I tested things with PostgreSQL, I realised there were a couple of database differences. But that's about as bad as it gets and I'm being fairly hard on myself in a way by developing for two databases at once (keeps my code portable, though). > 3- I have Django 0.97 on my laptop, but my host (webfaction) has 0.96. > Should I downgrade the local version so I'm using the same one as the > host? This is where you'll notice the most problems (firstly, 0.97 doesn't exist... you're using 0.97-pre-something). There have been a *lot* of changes since 0.96, so it would be best to develop against the same version you'll be using in production. Regards, Malcolm -- Save the whales. Collect the whole set. http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
