Django Basics Cheat Sheet

*$ django-admin.py startproject tango_my_django*

*$ mkdir -p tango_my_django/static/css*
*$ mkdir -p tango_my_django/static/js*


***tango_my_django/tango_my_django/settings.py***
STATIC_PATH = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH,'static')           
STATIC_URL = '/static/'                                     
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    STATIC_PATH,
)

*$ mkdir -p tango_my_django/templates/rango*

***tango_my_django/tango_my_django/settings.py***
TEMPLATE_PATH = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'templates')
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (TEMPLATE_PATH,)

***tango_my_django/templates/rango/index.html***
<!DOCTYPE html>
{% load static %}

<html>
     <head>
     ....

*$ tango_my_django/manage.py startapp tango_my_django/rango*

***tango_my_django/settings.py***

INSTALLED_APPS = ( ..., ..., 'rango', )

***tango_my_django/tango_my_django/urls.py***

# Include tango_my_django/rango/urls.py 
urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^mainApp/', include('mainApp.urls')),)

***tango_my_django/rango/urls.py***

from django.conf.urls import url, patterns
from mainApp import views

urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),)

***tango_my_django/rango/views.py***

from django.conf.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("hello rango")

    

***tango_my_django/rango/views.py***

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response   
from django.template import RequestContext

def index(request):
    context = RequestContext(request)
    context_dict = {'boldmessage' : 'I come from context_dict'}
    return render_to_response('mainApp/index.html', context_dict, context)