The pythonic way to deploy applications

Posted on Wed 06 May 2020 in conveyor • Tagged with conveyor, deployments, linux, python, flask, django

Pythonic - an idiom used for the python programming language that encourages code readability while striving for an optimal solution to a problem.

This idiom drove a lot of decisions when building conveyor.dev

To try to make a simple solution that works for most applications.

No container orchestration, no docker …


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Getting started with Conveyor

Posted on Mon 30 March 2020 in conveyor • Tagged with python, flask, django, deployments

Before you start

Before you get started with Conveyor you will need the following:

  • A domain name
  • A Github account
  • Digital Ocean or Linode account

Create a Conveyor.dev account

To get started you will need to create an account on Conveyor.dev

When you log in for the first …


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Setting up Less CSS with Django

Posted on Thu 23 January 2014 in Python • Tagged with less, django, css

I recently started using Less Css with Django, after using it briefly I found that I did not want to manually compile Less after making changes during development. Using this approach I am able to compile Less client-side during development and have django-compressor compile server-side on live site.

1. Install …


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South migration - table already exists

Posted on Tue 24 September 2013 in Python • Tagged with python, django, south

I was recently adding a slug field to a model in a Django application when I ran into this error when doing the South migration:

Error in migration: test_app:0002_auto__add_field_category_slug
DatabaseError: table "_south_new_test_app_category" already exists

When South makes changes to an existing table, it creates a new table with a …


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