Django developer gadgets

I’ve written two gadgets for helping me when developing Django sites. Since they might be useful to others, I thought I would mention them here.

ibofobi.utils. developer_http

The first is a web-server which re-exec’s itself after every request, so that all resources are reloaded for every request. It has worked very well for me. It lives as ibofobi.utils.developer_http.py in http://mel.ibofobi.dk/~sune/r/ibofobi.git.

You can either execute it directly, with --bind and --port (it defaults to all interfaces port 8080). Or if you just want to WSGI-server in there you can import BaseWSGIServer from the module.

ibofobi.middleware. template_dirs_hacker

The second gadget is a middleware which munges django.conf.settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS for every request. This is how I use it in my settings.devel:

from main import *
import admin

ROOT_URLCONF = 'settings.urls.devel'
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ('ibofobi.middleware.template_dirs_hacker.TemplateDirsHacker',) + MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = admin.ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX
TEMPLATE_DIRS_MAPPING = (
    ('/admin/', admin.TEMPLATE_DIRS),
    ('/', TEMPLATE_DIRS),
)
TEMPLATE_DIRS = []

And in my settings.urls.devel I have:

(r'^admin/', include('django.conf.urls.admin')),
(r'', include('settings.urls.main')),

So, when I request /admin/ I get the admin site with the proper TEMPLATE_DIRS, and when I request anything else I get the main site with the TEMPLATE_DIRS for that.