django-resetdb 0.2.0

Management command to reset your Django database

# django-resetdb

Developer-friendly database resets for Django

## Motivation

You’re developing a Django project and you need to investigate a problem in production. So, you need to clone the production database and take a look at it.

In the olden days, this was a very manual process. You would try to find a wiki page, forget where it is, try to remember the commands you needed to do, probably forget some minor detail, and, eventually, you would get your database clone.

Instead, you can now run a single command to either reset your database to a blank state or clone another database (production or otherwise).

## Installation

### Via internal PyPI

First you’ll need to make sure that your pip has knowledge of our internal PyPI repository. Then simply:

$ pip install django-resetdb

### Manual Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/GreenBankObservatory/django-resetdb $ pip install django-resetdb

## Configuration

Two settings will need to be configured before use:

1. Add django-resetdb to your INSTALLED_APPS (./manage.py help should now list django-resetdb)

2. Add django-resetdb to your LOGGING, if you want to access its verbose modes (optional)

## Usage

### Reset to blank database

In its most basic form, resetdb will simply reset your database to a blank state and apply migrations:

$ ./manage.py resetdb

### Reset to a database clone

This allows you to reset your database to a clone of another. You also have the option of avoiding migrations at the end (we need this for DSS currently, I think):

If you want to clone a database, you could simply provide the database name you wish to clone:

$ ./manage.py resetdb –clone dss_production –no-migrate

If there is an existing database backup you wish to reset to, you can use that instead:

$ ./manage.py resetdb –clone /home/scratch/dss/database_backups/dss_production.2018-06-08_00:00:00 –no-migrate