DjangoBot: #django-sqlalchemy

empty: I really want to use sqlalchemy in my django projects, is there an example of someone using django-sqlalchemy?

not that i know of

i mean i know of people using it

but i don't know of any writeups

empty: should i just review the tests for learning how to use it?

empty: they seemed a bit verbose, but the closest thing i have seen so far

well you can use it out of the box like django that's the goal. You only need to handle the settings stuff.

in the tests directory there is a settings.py

and you'll see how that's setup

ah, does the admin work alright?

i would guess no

haven't actually tried it yet

ah

because we're missing some stuff related to generic relations

oh right, contenttypes?

yeah

but then some guy told me the other day he was using it with multiple inheritance

so who knows

i've been focussed on the stuff i know doesn't work

but since pycon i've had almost zero time for the project

work has been insane

yeah same here, but then i got laid off, so i am doing django freelance work, which is quite nice

i would like to contribute to the project

that would be most welcome. :)

it's been bothering me a long time, it's driven me to look at turbogears and pylons

yep i know what you mean

reckon i should learn how to use it first :)

i've been looking at pylons lately because i have a mssql project

and it's actually quite nice. But for me the biggest thing is using sqlalchemy

that makes a big diff.

ah right, i like switching the template language to things like mako, but that is pretty simple with django

yeah no kidding it's just so awesome

seems insane not to use

yeah it is very nice

django's works for me easily 90% of the time, but i would just rather something that exceeds my database abilities

use something

is there maybe an area i should look at for contributing?

hmm

the easier parts is the management commands

ah alright i will take a look at that

extra commands, or just making syncdb and stuff working

great. let me know if you have any questions. I know it's not the easiest code to work with.

although it seems like you guys got that based on what i have seen on the site

making stuff work. Yeah we have syncdb

i will, thank you very much for doing this

but there's several we don't have

it's seriously is keeping me in django, i would totally jump if it wasn't for this project

yeah i've heard that from several people I just wish I could get it done

yeah it's ambitious

it's just not easy and very time consuming

i see adrian had a post from 2006 about a branch of django that would use sqlalchemy

yeah :)

didn't really find out whatever happened to that

that's a funny thread

lol yeah

because there was all the momentum.

then not a single commit

ah, man that's too bad

yah

you wouldn't happen to know which commands need work?

probably find that in the tests i suppose

No i don't know mwesterb off hand but I can look tomorrow and let you know

empty: i would appreciate that, thank you