Entries published on November 14, 2008
Writing custom management commands
The other night in the #django-dev IRC channel, Russ, Eric and I were talking about custom management commands for certain types of common but tedious tasks; Eric was discussing the possibility of a command for automatically generating a tests module in a Django application, since he’s our resident unit-testing freak, and I started toying with the idea of one to generate basic admin declarations for the models in an application.
So I sat down and spent a few minutes writing the code. I haven’t decided yet whether I want to clean it up into a proper patch against Django (which …