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Using fabric to manage moksha development

Apr 13, 2011 | categories: python, fabric, moksha View Comments

Now I know that fabric is really meant for managing deployment, but to try and teach myself what it can do, I rewrote some monster bash-scripts that manage the development environment for Luke Macken's awesome project moksha.

I came up with:

A master fabfile to manage moksha-proper development.
A template fabfile that gets placed in the base directory of new apps created from moksha's paster templates.

Here's an example of how to use them to start up a new moksha app.

#!/bin/bash

rm -rf threebean
mkdir -p threebean
pushd threebean

git clone git://github.com/ralphbean/moksha.git
pushd moksha
fab -H localhost bootstrap
popd

# If you don't already have it sourced in your .bashrc!
source /usr/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

workon moksha
paster moksha -l -c -u -C -P << EOF
testapp
moksha.test
EOF
deactivate

pushd testapp
fab -H localhost install
popd


pushd moksha
fab -H localhost develop
fab -H localhost start
popd

popd

# You should see the testapp widget show up under the 'widgets' menu.
firefox http://localhost:8080/ &amp;

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