merengue-admin.py

merengue-admin.py is Merengue’s command-line utility for administrative tasks. This document outlines all it can do.

merengue-admin.py extends django-admin.py adding some specific commands.

Usage

merengue-admin.py <subcommand> [options]

subcommand should be one of the subcommands listed in this document or some of the django-admin.py subcommands. options, which is optional, should be zero or more of the options available for the given subcommand.

Getting runtime help

--help

Run merengue-admin.py help to display a list of all available subcommands. Run merengue-admin.py help <subcommand> to display a description of the given subcommand and a list of its available options.

Available subcommands

create_tv_data

Creates example tv contents.

-d, --directory

Directory that contains preview files.

init_gis

Initializes GIS on database.

packtheme [theme_name]

Creates a zip file from a theme.

-o, --overwrite

Overwrites the zip file.

restore_config [config_name]

Restores merengue site configuration from a zip file.

save_config [config_name]

Creates a zip file from merengue site configuration.

-o, --overwrite

Overwrites the zip file.

-a, --all

Saves all files on file system.

startproject [projectname]

Creates a Django project directory structure for the given project name in the current directory.

-d, --develop

For development of Merengue's core, symlink instead of copy.

sync_plugins_media [appname appname ...]

Copies or links media files from all enabled plugins to the MEDIA_ROOT of the project.

This command is useful for deployment with a web server, because plugins can have their own media files. For development the view merengue.views.static.serve can be used.

Note

Based on the build_media management command from Pinax: http://github.com/pinax/pinax/blob/0f12c3a3a4ac396eeba734a52a285c7e2d7a7ea7/pinax/apps/staticfiles/management/commands/build_media.py which in turn is based on the collectmedia management command by Brian Beck: http://blog.brianbeck.com/post/50940622/collectmedia

-i, --interactive

Runs in interactive mode, asking before modifying files and selecting from multiple sources.

-a, --all

Traverses all enabled plugins.

-e, --exclude

A space-delimited list of glob-style patterns to ignore. Use multiple times to add more.

-n, --dry-run

Do everything except modify the filesystem.

unpacktheme [theme_name]

Unzips a zip file and create a theme.

-o, --overwrite

Overwrites the theme directories.

-p, --path

Path of zip file.

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