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Django Debug Toolbar Screencast

53 points by twampss 17y ago

peterlai 17y ago
Great screencast, but did anyone else zone out after 30 seconds because the music was so good? I had to play the screencast a second time to actually watch it.</digression>
- deleted 17y ago
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- edb 17y ago
  My guess is it's a Django Reinhardt song. :)
  - idan 17y ago
    It's by Anouman (http://anouman.net http://anouman.net) -- but it's gypsy jazz, same style as Django.
niels 17y ago
Django Debug Toolbar is a must use for Django development. I hope it becomes a contrib app at some point.
- forsaken 17y ago
  What value does it gain from becoming a contrib app, other than slower releases and less experimentation? I really don't understand the feeling of wanting things to go into Contrib. Hopefully soon, Russ's "No Bad Pony" talk from Djangocon this year will be online to point people to.
  - cschep 17y ago
    So instead of people in threads like this going "WTF, how did I not know about this?" ... they will be like ... "Yeah, that's in the documentations I use it everyday it's great."
    - ubernostrum 17y ago
      The answer to people not knowing about useful third-party apps is not to stuff all the apps into contrib.
  - dmpayton 17y ago
    I agree that it should not be in contrib, but it might be useful to have a doc page listing useful tools that ease development (DDT, South...)
jessep 17y ago
Alrighty then. Using out Django Debug Toolbar has been on my list of things to start doing for a while now, but after seeing this, how could I not start immediately?
- jessep 17y ago
  Okay, it is installed. And it is awesome. I'm a bit sad I didn't start using this before. Had similar feeling about command extensions and south when I started using them.
  - kirubakaran 17y ago
    Wow! Thanks! http://south.aeracode.org/wiki/About http://south.aeracode.org/wiki/About http://ericholscher.com/blog/2008/sep/12/screencast-django-command-extensions/ http://ericholscher.com/blog/2008/sep/12/screencast-django-c... Edit : Holy Shit!
    - jessep 17y ago
      certainly :)
  - jessep 17y ago
    hm. after using it for a while, it seems to slow down the development server quite a bit. have other people found this or am i hallucinating?
    - durin42 17y ago
      No, I've found that too. My fork on github [0] has the necessary patches to make the "should this be enabled" function make its decision on the basis of a GET parameter, so you can do ?toolbar-enabled=1 and ?toolbar-enabled=0 or whatever. [0] http://github.com/durin42/django-debug-toolbar http://github.com/durin42/django-debug-toolbar
larrywright 17y ago
If you prefer Rails, there is a very similar tool for Rack, called Rack::Debug: http://github.com/ddollar/rack-debug http://github.com/ddollar/rack-debug. I believe it was inspired by DDT.

53 points by twampss 17y ago

Great screencast, but did anyone else zone out after 30 seconds because the music was so good? I had to play the screencast a second time to actually watch it.</digression>

deleted 17y ago
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edb 17y ago
My guess is it's a Django Reinhardt song. :)
- idan 17y ago
  It's by Anouman (http://anouman.net http://anouman.net) -- but it's gypsy jazz, same style as Django.

niels 17y ago

Django Debug Toolbar is a must use for Django development. I hope it becomes a contrib app at some point.

forsaken 17y ago
What value does it gain from becoming a contrib app, other than slower releases and less experimentation? I really don't understand the feeling of wanting things to go into Contrib. Hopefully soon, Russ's "No Bad Pony" talk from Djangocon this year will be online to point people to.
- cschep 17y ago
  So instead of people in threads like this going "WTF, how did I not know about this?" ... they will be like ... "Yeah, that's in the documentations I use it everyday it's great."
  - ubernostrum 17y ago
    The answer to people not knowing about useful third-party apps is not to stuff all the apps into contrib.
- dmpayton 17y ago
  I agree that it should not be in contrib, but it might be useful to have a doc page listing useful tools that ease development (DDT, South...)

jessep 17y ago

Alrighty then. Using out Django Debug Toolbar has been on my list of things to start doing for a while now, but after seeing this, how could I not start immediately?

jessep 17y ago
Okay, it is installed. And it is awesome. I'm a bit sad I didn't start using this before. Had similar feeling about command extensions and south when I started using them.
- kirubakaran 17y ago
  Wow! Thanks! http://south.aeracode.org/wiki/About http://south.aeracode.org/wiki/About http://ericholscher.com/blog/2008/sep/12/screencast-django-command-extensions/ http://ericholscher.com/blog/2008/sep/12/screencast-django-c... Edit : Holy Shit!
  - jessep 17y ago
    certainly :)
- jessep 17y ago
  hm. after using it for a while, it seems to slow down the development server quite a bit. have other people found this or am i hallucinating?
  - durin42 17y ago
    No, I've found that too. My fork on github [0] has the necessary patches to make the "should this be enabled" function make its decision on the basis of a GET parameter, so you can do ?toolbar-enabled=1 and ?toolbar-enabled=0 or whatever. [0] http://github.com/durin42/django-debug-toolbar http://github.com/durin42/django-debug-toolbar

larrywright 17y ago

If you prefer Rails, there is a very similar tool for Rack, called Rack::Debug: http://github.com/ddollar/rack-debug http://github.com/ddollar/rack-debug. I believe it was inspired by DDT.