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Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Database Migrations

2009 November 06

Continuing in the series of big problems that are mostly solved, we have database migrations. A couple days ago I talked about Search.

Database Migrations

Database Migrations are an interesting piece of the Django community. Rails has the functionality built in, but ...

Migrating Django Test Fixtures Using South

2009 June 11

The Problem

Migrating test fixtures is one of the biggest pains of testing. If you create your tests too early, then change your schema, you have to go back and touch all your old test fixtures. This discourages people from writing tests until their app is relatively 'stable'. As we ...

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