mozilla/playdoh — Issue #77: speed bumps
Author: davidascher
Created: 2011-10-21 21:15:52+00:00
State: open

hi folks.

playing w/playdoh, so here's a newbie's perspective:

After reading the readme, I had to do the following things:

- define settings.SECRET_KEY to some string, as per advice on #webdev. that should be explained in the README>
- start ./manage.py runserver, and go to http://localhost:8000/

and then notice a traceback about a missing Template: 500.html when visiting that URL. Haven't dug into why that's happening, but it feels like a speed bump.

then poked around to find both templates/examples/home.html (which handles that default URL) and templates/example_base.html (which may or may not be used, I haven't figured it out yet).

It's not 100% clear from the readme what playdoh is/isn't. My take is that it's a "current mozilla webdev best practices configuration of django, to deal w/ generic (e.g. security) and mozilla-specific requirements (e.g. l10n)". I suggest trying to write up a page that is a tl;dr summary for someone who'se familiar w/ Django, but not familiar with how webdev does things.

kthxbye.