Re: Single Table Inheritance

2011-03-30 Thread Alex Robbins
If you need to be able to filter and search across models, you could try haystack. http://docs.haystacksearch.org/dev/searchqueryset_api.html#filter I've setup a site with a real base class, done queries on that and then returned the child classes. It worked, but it felt pretty hacky all the way

Re: Feature request - set variables in template

2010-08-27 Thread Alex Robbins
I think the thread Brian is thinking of is this one: http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/31f0d2302c07a75b/1c41d02147316f3e?lnk=gst=New+context#1c41d02147316f3e If everyone can agree on the tag's syntax, I'd definitely work on writing the patch. Alex On Aug 26,

Re: New context template tag

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Robbins
defacto, so it's hard to think about including any of them in > core. It does seem like a place that could use some expose either in the > docs or in the general community though. > Cheers, > Eric > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Alex Robbins > <alexander.j.robb...

New context template tag

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Robbins
I am a huge fan of simple_tag and inclusion_tag. They take a common template tag use case and make it very easy to write. It seems like a common use case that isn't represented is adding a value to context. I find myself writing tags to add a variable to context very often and it seems like we

Any change this could make it in for 1.2?

2010-01-27 Thread Alex Robbins
This ticket adds label and verbose_name to apps. I know this would be very useful for lots of people. http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3591 Is it too late for it to make it into 1.2? What can we do to make sure it makes it in for 1.3? Thanks, Alex -- You received this message because you

Django test runner

2009-05-28 Thread Alex Robbins
It would be really great if the test runner had an excludes option. I would like to run tests from all apps, except for a couple I know are bad. Should I just make my own custom test runner or is this something others would like also? Alex --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Dallas 1.1 sprint - dates?

2009-04-03 Thread Alex Robbins
I live in the Dallas area and would be interested in coming, whenever it happens. On Apr 2, 12:45 pm, Jeremy Dunck wrote: > Hey all, I was considering putting on a Dallas sprint for 1.1.  I'm > not sure exactly when 1.1 will ship, but soon-ish, so I was thinking > about trying