django-gipsy 0.0.4

A set of fancy tools for django.

Set of libraries used for the gipsy project.

Install

It is strongly recommanded to install this theme from GIT with PIP onto you project virtualenv.

From PyPi

pip install django-gipsy

From Github

https://github.com/RevSquare/gipsy#egg=gipsy

GISPY TOOLBAR

This Django app manages a toolbar for admins with shortcuts to easily navigate to most relevant admin features.

setup

Simply add the app in your installed apps list in settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'gipsy.toolbar'
    ...
)

Then install your model with

python manage.py syncdb

In case you are using South, you can alternatively do:

python manage.py migrate gipsy.toolbar

Setup your menu items in the admin.

And finaly, install the toolbar in your templates with a template tag:

{% load gipsy_toolbar %}

{% gipsy_toolbar %}

For the admin part, you will need to overwrite templates with the same code as above: {templates}/admin/base.html

If you are using a cache engine such as Varnish, you can use a bundled middleware in order to set a cookie that you can use to deactivate cache to display the toolkbar for staff admins. Happy to hear abotu a cleaner solution.

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'gipsy.toolbar.middleware.GipsyToolbarMiddleware',
    ...
)

GISPY DASHBOARD

This Django app adds tons of cool features in the django admin. For now it works only with grappelli, so make sure you have it installed.

setup

Simply add the app in your installed apps list in settings.py.

IMPORTANT! You need to install it BEFORE any other admin library such as grappelli or django admin.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'gipsy.dashboard',
    ...
    'grappelli',
    ...
    'django.contrib.admin',
)

Then install your model with

python manage.py syncdb

In case you are using South, you can alternatively do:

python manage.py migrate gipsy.dashboard

Menu items

Setup your menu items in the admin. Each menu entry have parent and children. You can add icons to the parents by using font awesome classes: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

Urls

By default Gipsy Dashboard overrides the admin urls to display the dashboard as the default admin homepage. It still keeps the default index of django or grappelli by hosts this page on a different url: ‘admin:all_tables’

To do so, Gipsy Dashboard overrides the django.contrib.admin.sites.AdminSite. If you are using your own AdminSite class, you can inherit it from the gispy.dashboard.admin.GipsyAdminSite. You can also remove this behaviour by using the following constant in your settings:

GIPSY_ENABLE_ADMINSITE = False

You will then need to use your own url redirections and settings.

Additionnaly you can define in the settings the url pattern you want to use for each of those pages:

GIPSY_DASHBOARD_URL = 'admin:index'
GIPSY_VANILLA_INDEX_URL = 'admin:all_apps'

Widgets

The philosophy behind the widget is flexibility. Gipsy Dashboard integrate a set of pre-written template tags. You can include those template tags by overwriting the gipsy.dashboard.templates.dashboard.html file.

Then feel free to add you own widgets by copying the html of each templatetags. Or you can use existing templatetags and fill them with appropriate objects.

Themes

You can add your own stylesheet theme file to the admin by using the GIPSY_THEME constant in your settings.py.

By default the theme is from grappelli. However it doesnt match the toolbar and left menu well. A more accurate theme is available but still under developpment so it might have some unstabilities. You can still use it by adding this command line in your settings.py:

GIPSY_THEME = STATIC_URL + 'gipsy_dashboard/css/gipsy.css'

Version indicator

Sometimes version information is be very useful. When knowing current version you are able to tell in ticket on which version bug appears. Also it will be easy to check if this is regression (bug reapeared on present version, is not reproductible on prod which has different version).

GIPSY_VERSION_INDICATOR = ('<version display info>', '<version hover info>')

GIPSY_VERSION_INDICATOR = (‘v1.0’, ’ fdb25bb85bdd047689d5845bbc15cdac94d3c9de’).

You can setup this value by any method you want, you might want to populate it automatically during deploy or get it from file or git or hg.

For example:

GIPSY_VERSION_INDICATOR = open('path/to/version.txt').read().rsplit(',', 1)

or:

def get_git_version():
    import subprocess

    def call(cmd):
        return subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=BASE_DIR).communicate()[0]

    describe = call(['git', 'describe'])
    branch = call(['git', 'rev-parse', '--abbrev-ref', 'HEAD'])
    sha = call(['git', 'rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD'])
    if branch.strip() == 'master':
        return describe, sha
    return branch, describe

GIPSY_VERSION_INDICATOR = get_git_version()

You can choose indicator position by specifying GIPSY_VERSION_INDICATOR_LOCATION. Choices are ‘nav’, ‘menu’. By default its ‘nav’.

Example:

GIPSY_VERSION_INDICATOR_LOCATION = 'nav'

Contribution

Please feel free to contribute. Any help and advices are much appreciated.

LINKS

Development:

https://github.com/RevSquare/gipsy

Package:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-gipsy