django-plugin-database-url

Django plugin that reads the DATABASE_URL environment variable

Installation

First configure your Django project to use DJP.

Then install this plugin in the same environment as your Django application.

pip install django-plugin-database-url

Usage

Once installed, any DATABASE_URL environment variable will be automatically used to configure your Django database setting, using dj-database-url.

This plugin mainly exists to demonstrate the settings() plugin hook in DJP.

Development

To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd django-plugin-database-url
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

python -m pytest