Tips and tricks

Clearing the cache

Sometimes there are changes to the internal changes of the cached structures. It is recommended that you just clear all the existing caches python manage.py clear-cache --clear-all or just set the timeout to something like one second (in settings.py:

CACHES = {
'default': {
    'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
    'LOCATION': 'wger-cache',
    'TIMEOUT': 1
    }
}

Miscellaneous settings

The following settings can be very useful during development (add to your settings.py):

Setting the email backend

Use the console backend, all sent emails will be printed to it:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

Dummy data generator

To properly test the different parts of the application for usability or performance, it is often very useful to have some data to work with. For this reason, there is a dummy data generator script in extras/dummy_generator/generator.py. It allows you to generate entries for users, gyms, workouts, and logs. For detailed usage options do:

python generator.py --help

Or for options for, e.g. user generation:

python generator.py users --help

To get you started, you might want to invoke the script in the following way. This will create 10 gyms and 300 users, randomly assigning them to a different gym. Each user will have 20 workouts and each exercise in each workout 30 log entries as well as 10 nutrition diary entries per day:

python generator.py gyms 10
python generator.py users 300
python generator.py workouts 20
python generator.py logs 30
python generator.py sessions random
python generator.py weight 100
python generator.py nutrition 20
python generator.py nutrition-diary 10
python generator.py measurement 20

Note

All generated users have their username as a password.

Note

While it is possible to generate hundreds of users, gyms are more restricted and you will probably get duplicate names if you generate more than a dozen.

Selectively running tests

If you do a python manage.py test you will run the complete testsuite, and this can take a while. You can control which tests will be executed like this.

Test only the tests in the ‘core’ app:

python manage.py test wger.core

Test only the tests in the ‘test_user.py` file in the core app:

python manage.py test wger.core.tests.test_user

Test only the tests in ‘StatusUserTestCase’ in the file ‘test_user.py` file in the core app:

python manage.py test wger.core.tests.test_user.StatusUserTestCase

Using runserver_plus

During development, you can use runserver_plus instead of the default Django server as you can use an interactive debugger directly from the browser if an exception occurs. It also accepts the same command-line options. For this just install the following packages:

pip install django_extensions werkzeug
python manage.py runserver_plus [options]

Contributing

Send pull requests: for new code you want to share, please send pull requests in GitHub. Sending patches by email or attaching them to an issue means a lot more work. It’s recommended that you work on a feature branch when working on something, especially when it’s something bigger. While many people insist on rebasing before sending a pull request, it’s not necessary.
Run the tests: wger is proud to have a test coverage of over 90%. When you implement something new, don’t forget to run the testsuite and write appropriate tests for the new code.
Code according to the coding style: Coding Style Guide