Using eclipse you can create a run configuration that starts the dbserver and it will auto-reload whenever you change a file. Of course since the dbserver auto restarts when it detects a file change, the command line is not all that bad.
-----Original Message----- From: django-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:django-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of MrMuffin Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:21 PM To: Django users Subject: Django IDE : how to start the devserver in an editor? I`m trying to develop a simple plugin[0] for the Editra[1] editor for django development. Right now it can create django projects and apps from within the editor. The editor is based on wxPython and I want to start the devserver from within the editor, show a simple form with the option to stop or kill/restart the server. The goal is to minimize the need to do repetetive tasks in the console/ shell. My reason for doing this is that I`m working in a Microsoft only company where you seldom do stuff using the command line. Selling django is hard when I`m in and out of the shell/command line to start/ restart the server, syncdb, migrate etc. To make the job of selling django to my co-workers and hopefully make development easier ( at least for the django developers who likes to work in an IDE ) I`ve started the work on a plugin for Editra. Right now the plugin adds a menu item called Django with two subitems; create project and create app. A context menu is in the works which will give different options depending on the content of the file being edited; right click in a window holding settings.py will give you the option to start the server, call syncdb, migrate etc. A right click in views.py will give you options to help you generate views, in models.py scaffolding, generation of admin.py etc. The only thing I cannot get my head around is how to start/kill/ restart the devserver from inside the app. If anybody has any information about this I`d be very grateful. When the plugin is more stable and has a few more features I`ll post something, perhaps do a screencast as well. Any help, input, comments or ideas are appreciated. NB! I know the main problem here is not django specific, more wxpython, but I post the message here because I hope this project might be of interest to other django developers as well. Regards, Thomas Weholt [0] https://bitbucket.org/weholt/editra.djangomanagement [1] http://editra.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
