[Chicago] Per virtualenv environment variables

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Adam "Cezar" Jenkins <
emperorcezar at gmail.com> wrote:

> At work I'm working on a new infrastructure. For various reasons, I really
> like how Heroku does app local settings, but can't use Heroku. They are set
> in the environment variables. For instance, I would use the Heroku command
> like so
>
> heroku config:add aws_key=1234567890
>
> and I could pull that in side my Django settings file with env['aws_key']
>
> So I've been wondering what the best way is to set environment variables
> on a per virtualenv case? So far I've only come up with a custom activate
> script, or code in my Django app that updates the env dictionary using a
> .cfg or .yml file found in the virtualenv. I'm sure there's some python or
> bash magic that would make it easier?
>
> I use YamJam, a yaml config file setup.  I work in a corp environment, so
lots of my settings are the same for different projects, i.e. where is the
accounting data, where are pdfs stored, etc.   So I end up with a system
that uses config settings at a user level and then project specific, or
overrides at the project level (machine or debug/production specific).
~/.yamjam/config.yaml + project/config.yaml

I like YamJam because it's just a light layer over pyyaml that handles
config setting merging intelligently.
http://code.google.com/p/yamjam/

May not be what you are looking for, but it would save you from
re-inventing your .cfg/.yml code to update settings.py.

Django needs some work there, storing db credentials and SECRET_KEY in a
piece of code that needs to be in a repository is troublesome.


-- 
Best,

Jeff Hinrichs
402.218.1473
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