django-master-slave-router 0.2

A simple master-slave database router that can route all reads to slave(s) and writes to a master database.

# django-master-slave-router
---
A simple database router that lets you route all reads to slave(s) and writes to a master database in a django project. It **DOES NOT** take care of replication nor does it handle scenarios where your databases are down/unavailable.

## Installation

Install the package through pip.

pip install django-master-slave-router

Prerequisites:

* Django >= 1.5


## Usage

Add the following settings inside your project's **settings.py**

1) Add 'master\_slave_router' to INSTALLED\_APPS.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'master_slave_router',
)

2) Add MasterSlaveRouter to DATABASE_ROUTERS

DATABASE_ROUTERS = ('master_slave_router.MasterSlaveRouter')


3) Add connection settings for slave/master databases.

DATABASES = {
'default': {
...
},

'test_slave_1': {
...
},

'test_slave_2': {
...
}
}

4) Specify name(s) of the master and slave connections.

SLAVE_DATABASES = ('test_slave1', 'test_slave2')
MASTER_DATABASE = 'default'



## Licence
MIT.