mezzanine-recipes 1.0.0

Recipe blog posts for Mezzanine CMS

This plugin gives you a “Recipe” blog post type for your Mezzanine sites.

Features

• Embed an image of the meal
• Provide an ingredient list
• Let your visitors add a comment and rating to recipes
• The usual stuff - ingredients, times, categories
• REST-API for external applications

Installation

• Run pip install mezzanine-recipes (or, if you want to hack on mezzanine-recipes, clone it and run pip install -e path/to/repo)

• Create a Mezzanine CMS project

• Add "mezzanine_recipes" followed by "tastypie" on top of your INSTALLED_APPS

• Migrate your database with python manage.py migrate mezzanine_recipes

• Install fixtures with python manage.py loaddata mezzanine_required.json

• To enable Recipe-Blog and REST API put following code to your urls.py:

  from mezzanine.conf import settings
  from tastypie.api import Api
  from mezzanine_recipes.api import *
  
  v1_api = Api(api_name='v1')
  v1_api.register(CategoryResource())
  v1_api.register(KeywordResource())
  v1_api.register(AssignedKeywordResource())
  v1_api.register(PostResource())
  v1_api.register(RecipeResource())
  v1_api.register(BlogPostResource())
  v1_api.register(IngredientResource())
  v1_api.register(WorkingHoursResource())
  v1_api.register(CookingTimeResource())
  v1_api.register(RestPeriodResource())
  v1_api.register(CommentResource())
  v1_api.register(RatingResource())
  
  urlpatterns = patterns("",
      ("^api/", include(v1_api.urls)),
      ("^%s/" % settings.BLOG_SLUG, include("mezzanine_recipes.urls")),
      ...
  

• Look at http://www.robertstevens.org/mezzanine-recipes.html if you need a much more detailed installation instruction

Usage

mezzanine-recipe provides the blog post type “Recipe”. The Recipe blog post type represents a single recipe.

Create a Recipe blog post in the Mezzanine admin (naming it something like “Recipe”).

Creating Templates

The template for the Recipe List can be found at templates/recipe/recipe_list.html and for a Recipe Blog Post at templates/recipe/recipe_detail.html.

The Recipe object is available at mezzanine_recipes.models.recipe. It has the following properties:

• Periods and times: WorkingHours, CookingTime, RestPeriod
• Cooking info: ingredients, portions, difficulty, categories
• Text data: title, summary, content, comments, ratings

To Do

• Implement some tests
• Add single cooking steps to Recipe