ANSIBLE.DJANGO_MANAGE(3)

NAME
django_manage - Manages a Django application.

DESCRIPTION

Manages a Django application using the manage.py application frontend to django-admin. With the virtualenv parameter, all management commands will be executed by the given virtualenv installation.

OPTIONS

app_path
    The path to the root of the Django application where manage.py lives.(required)

apps
    A list of space-delimited apps to target. Used by the 'test' command.

cache_table
    The name of the table used for database-backed caching. Used by the 'createcachetable' command.

command
    The name of the Django management command to run. Allowed commands are cleanup, createcachetable, flush, loaddata, syncdb, test, validate. Choices: cleanup,flush,loaddata,runfcgi,syncdb,test,validate,migrate,collectstatic.(required)

database
    The database to target. Used by the 'createcachetable', 'flush', 'loaddata', and 'syncdb' commands.

failfast
    Fail the command immediately if a test fails. Used by the 'test' command. Choices: yes,no. (default: no)

fixtures
    A space-delimited list of fixture file names to load in the database. Required by the 'loaddata' command.

link
    Will create links to the files instead of copying them, you can only use this parameter with 'collectstatic' command

merge
    Will run out-of-order or missing migrations as they are not rollback migrations, you can only use this parameter with 'migrate' command

pythonpath
    A directory to add to the Python path. Typically used to include the settings module if it is located external to the application directory.

settings
    The Python path to the application's settings module, such as 'myapp.settings'.

skip
    Will skip over out-of-order missing migrations, you can only use this parameter with migrate

virtualenv
    An optional path to a virtualenv installation to use while running the manage application.."

NOTES

virtualenv (http://www.virtualenv.org) must be installed on the remote host if the virtualenv parameter is specified.

This module will create a virtualenv if the virtualenv parameter is specified and a virtualenv does not already exist at the given location.

This module assumes English error messages for the 'createcachetable' command to detect table existence, unfortunately.

To be able to use the migrate command, you must have south installed and added as an app in your settings

To be able to use the collectstatic command, you must have enabled staticfiles in your settings
# Run cleanup on the application installed in 'django_dir'.
- django_manage: command=cleanup app_path={{ django_dir }}
# Load the initial_data fixture into the application
- django_manage: command=loaddata app_path={{ django_dir }} fixtures={{ initial_data }}
#Run syncdb on the application
- django_manage: >
      command=syncdb
      app_path={{ django_dir }}
      settings={{ settings_app_name }}
      pythonpath={{ settings_dir }}
      virtualenv={{ virtualenv_dir }}
#Run the SmokeTest test case from the main app. Useful for testing deploys.
- django_manage: command=test app_path=django_dir apps=main.SmokeTest

AUTHOR
Scott Anderson

SEE ALSO
ansible(1), http://ansible.github.com/modules.html#django-manage