On 9/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It describes how to use Django ORM to add initial SQL data to freshly > installed apps without files with RAW SQL
There's actually a much better way to do this, which won't require any additional scripts to be run manually: 1. Create a file in your app named 'management.py'. 2. In it, define a function which will do whatever you want. 3. Import the dispatcher, and connect your function to the 'post_syncdb' signal when the sender of the signal is the app being installed. This works because, during a syncdb run, Django will check for a module called 'management' inside each app and import it if it exists, and after creating an application's DB tables (and executing any manual initial SQL), the just-installed app fires the 'post_syncdb' signal. I've got a simple example of this in a blog entry I wrote last night (wow, self-promotion in two straight posts to the list!): http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/09/10/django-tips-laying-out-application Other examples can be found in django/contrib/auth/management.py, django/contrib/sites/management.py and django/contrib/contenttypes/management.py. -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
