The Django Docs Tutorial

To build a test site directly from the docs provided by Django.

The work so far

I've completed through Part 3 so far. After a brief detour through trying to get this up on Heroku, I will resume with Part 4.

This site is up and running at https://floating-taiga-14673.herokuapp.com/

Heroku

In the venv set up for the project:

pip install django-heroku
pip install gunicorn

Update requirements.txt

del requirements.txt
pip freeze >> requirements.txt

Logged in to Heroku

heroku login

Create an App in Heroku

heroku create

This failed with the warning

...You're using the staticfiles app without having set the STATIC_ROOT setting to a filesystem path.

Looked in the settings file of my heroku getting started project and copied the following lines into mine at the bottom

Added at the top of the file

import django_heroku
import os

Added at the bottom of the file

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
STATIC_URL = "/static/"

# Configure Django App for Heroku.


django_heroku.settings(locals())

This workes to push it to heroku, but the file is still not running.

Looking at a solution from stackoverflow which mentions the following changes to settings.py:

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)

Copied over runtime.txt

Included requests in requirements

Part 4: Forms and generic views

We wrote a small form to vote on responses.

Then, we changed index, detail, and results to use generic views.