The purpose of this package is unify some custom utilities that I've been developing while I work on different Arches projects. It is a work in progress. Hopefully, some of this content will eventually become part of core Arches, and in the meantime I hope others find it helpful.
So far, it is just a suite of Django management commands, though more content may be added in the future.
repo -- legiongis/arches-dev-tools
docs site -- legiongis.github.io/arches-dev-tools.
get in touch -- Feel free to open a ticket or get in touch directly, [email protected]. I'd love to collaborate if you see something here that could be better, or if you have ideas for other utilities that should be added. The only requirement is that the content be generic, not implementation-specific.
These tools are packaged as a Django app so they can be easily integrated into an existing Arches installation. For this to work, you must install this package into your Arches virtual environment like this:
pip install git+https://github.com/legiongis/arches-dev-tools.git --no-binary arches-dev-tools
Alternatively, you can fork/clone the repo and pip install from a local clone:
git clone https://github.com/legiongis/arches-dev-tools
pip install -e arches-dev-tools
Now, in your Arches project's settings.py file, add arches_dev_tools to your INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS += ('arches_dev_tools', )
It may be wiser to place this in your project's settings_local.py file, just remember to import INSTALLED_APPS:
from .settings import INSTALLED_APPS
INSTALLED_APPS += ('arches_dev_tools', )
That's it! You can now start using these management commands and other utilities in your existing Arches project.
To confirm the installation, run
python manage.py --help
and you should see a new section called arches_dev_tools with a list of new commands.
To uninstall the app, remove the INSTALLED_APPS line above and then run
pip uninstall arches-dev-tools