django-dotenv-rw

Forked from awesome but simpler django-dotenv. Removes black magic, makes loading .env in settings.py easier, adds remote .env file management capabilities. Works as a drop-in replacement for django-dotenv.

foreman reads from .env. manage.py doesn't. Let's fix that.

heroku config Lets you add/delete env variables on your remote server from your local command line. django-dotenv-rw when used with fabric lets you do the same heroku config:set DJANGO_ENV="PRODUCTION" becomes fab config:set,DJANGO_ENV,PRODUCTION

Installation

pip install git+ssh://git@github.com/tedtieken/django-dotenv-rw.git

Usage: loading settings from a .env file into your django environment

Option 1 (suggested): Near the top of settings.py. Add:

import os
import dotenv
PROJECT_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
dotenv.load_dotenv(os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, ".env"))

Option 2: If you want your server to set the env variables and only use dotenv when you're using manage.py: in manage.py add:

import dotenv
dotenv.load_dotenv(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".env"))

Usage: setting remote config

This is a first pass, will likely change.

Put the dotenv.py file in the same folder on your server as the .env file and manage.py. Then you can add a config task to your local fabfile:

@task
def config(action=None,key=None,value=None):
    command = env.django_path + "dotenv.py "
    command += env.django_path + ".env "
    command += action + " " if action else ""
    command += key + " " if key else ""
    command += value + " " if value else ""
    python(command)

Usage is designed to mirror the heroku config api very closely.

Get all your remote config info with fab config

$ fab config
[...webfactional.com] Executing task 'config'
[...webfactional.com] run: python2.7 /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/dotenv.py /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/.env 
[...webfactional.com] out: DJANGO_DEBUG="true"
[...webfactional.com] out: DJANGO_ENV="test"

Set remote config variables with fab config:set,[key],[value]

$ fab config:set,hello,world
[...webfactional.com] Executing task 'config'
[...webfactional.com] run: python2.7 /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/dotenv.py /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/.env set hello world 
[...webfactional.com] out: hello: world

Get a single remote config variables with fab config:get,[key]

$ fab config:get,hello,world
[...webfactional.com] Executing task 'config'
[...webfactional.com] run: python2.7 /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/dotenv.py /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/.env get hello  
[...webfactional.com] out: hello
[...webfactional.com] out: world

Delete a remote config variables with fab config:unset,[key]

$ fab config:unset,hello
[...webfactional.com] Executing task 'config'
[...webfactional.com] run: python2.7 /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/dotenv.py /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/.env unset hello  
[...webfactional.com] out: unset hello

Thanks entirely to fabric and not one bit to this project, you can chain commands like sofab config:set,[key1],[value1] config:set,[key2],[value2]

$ fab config:set,hello,world config:set,foo,bar config:set,fizz,buzz
[...webfactional.com] Executing task 'config'
[...webfactional.com] run: python2.7 /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/dotenv.py /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/.env set hello world 
[...webfactional.com] out: hello: world
[...webfactional.com] Executing task 'config'
[...webfactional.com] run: python2.7 /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/dotenv.py /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/.env set foo bar 
[...webfactional.com] out: foo: bar
[...webfactional.com] Executing task 'config'
[...webfactional.com] run: python2.7 /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/dotenv.py /home/me/webapps/myapp/myapp/.env set fizz buzz 
[...webfactional.com] out: fizz: buzz

That's it. Webfaction, or whoever your non-paas host is, is now 1 facor closer to an easy 12 factor app.