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PyCharm With Django
5:05One of PyCharm's best features is its integration with Django. Let's explore how these two great tastes work together.
So I've downloaded my learning
site from Django Basics, and
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I want to use that as
a project in PyCharm.
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Now I could create a new project, but
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sometimes that doesn't always work
out when I drag those files over.
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So I'm gonna choose Open instead,
and then I have to find it.
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So it's on Desktop > learning_site,
and I say OK.
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And PyCharm was pretty cool, it goes and
inspects the software, and it's like,
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hey, I think I see a data base in there so
lets let pie charm do that.
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So you say click here, you might see
a thing down here about needing to
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install SQL Lite but that's up to you.
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You can give this a name if you want.
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It doesn't really need one.
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And you can hit Test Connection
just to make sure it can connect.
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And it can.
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So you say OK.
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And then that's cool,
now it has a database.
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So let's look at this database.
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If I look at Django default here,
here's all my tables.
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If I look at like step,
here's all the fields on step.
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And if I double-click step, then I get to
see all of the items that are in there and
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I could, of course, add new rows if
I wanted or delete a row or whatever.
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The database browser is really cool.
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This is like one of my favorite things.
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So it sees that learning site as
Django project, but it can't run it,
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because we don't have Django installed.
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So let's go see about doing that.
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We're gonna go to Preferences.
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And we wanna look at
the Project Preferences, and
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we have Project Interpreter.
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Now, I don't want 2.7.0, I want a new one.
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And I want it to be a virtualenv.
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So, I'm gonna hit these ellipses, and
I'm gonna choose creat virtualenv.
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And I'm gonna call it, Learning Site.
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So, there's all of our stuff and
we're gonna say OK.
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It's going to create the virtual nv,
and nothing is installed yet,
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but we're going to hit OK, just so
it sets up for the project.
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And then we are going to
back into our settings, and
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here's where we can install packages,
which is kind of cool.
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So we're going to hit this little plus
sign down here to install a package.
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The package I wanna install is Django.
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Now Django's currently about to
get ready for a release of 1.9.
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But I don't wanna use 1.9, I wanna
use 1.8, because I wanna be sure and
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use the same one I used in the tutorial.
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So I'm gonna click specify a version, and
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then I'm gonna change
the version over here to 1.8.7.
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I think when we made the project is was
1.8.4, but it doesn't really matter, and
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then I"m gonna hit, install package.
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You'll see here it says installing.
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We have a little spinny thing.
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And then it says package Django
was installed successfully.
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So we'll close that and
then we'll click OK.
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So now, once it reloads everything,
it should see that learning site is okay.
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But it doesn't what to run.
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So let's go check that out.
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If we go to tools, we'll actually see this
thing here that says run manage.pi task.
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So we're gonna click that, and
it fetches our Django commands and
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then gives us a little
fake terminal down here.
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An we can run like make migrations.
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What's cool is that it has
auto-complete for that, too.
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But what I want to do right now is,
I want to do is run server.
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So, not run FCGI, I want to do run server.
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And I just press Return and it's running.
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And if I click this button, then I get
a new window, which has my project in it.
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So, there's 127, and
there it is, so that's cool.
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So it's running and I can actually
just put this down at the bottom.
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And you see here it has this manage.pi,
this is the tab that has it in there.
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So if I click that again,
I can hit the stop button,
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I can use all these tools
in order to control that.
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If I hit the stop button,
then it stops running it, and
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I can type in a new management plan.
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So one thing that's
really handy in PyCharm,
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is I need to be able to
jump to classes quickly.
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So I want to command o, and
this helps me find a class name.
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So I'm going to chose Step,
which is one of our classes.
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And you can see here we have three classes
that have the name of Step in them,
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StepInline, StepModelTests, and
the one I want which is Step.
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So I press return and
it takes me straight to that.
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Now, if I have something else
though where it's not a class.
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I want to just be able to jump to it
quickly though, I can hit double Shift, so
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Shift Shift, and then I can start
typing in the thing I want to find.
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So maybe I wanna find my function,
hello world.
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So it's down here at the bottom.
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I can hit command option zero, or I can do
shift shift and go find it pretty quickly.
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So I go there and
it takes me straight to that function.
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So those are both really handy
ways of getting around in Django.
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There is some other nice stuff in
Django where like it kinda knows
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what your text fields and things are.
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And you can also, sometimes,
have it insert things for you.
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Where, you know, you can be like alright,
I want you to insert something.
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Like property getters or something.
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Most of the time this is more useful for
standard Python stuff and
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than it is for Django stuff.
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