Sometimes you have context variables that are needed on many pages in a site, but not all. You only want them to be evaluated when actually needed, especially if they are expensive calculations that do DB queries etc. The pattern to use is shown: put a callable into the context, not the final value, and also wrap the callable with memoize_nullary.
Django 1.3 has an assertNumQueries method which will allows you to simply specify the number of queries you expect. Sometimes, however, specifying the exact number of queries is overkill, and makes the test too brittle. This code provides a way to make more forgiving tests. See http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/fuzzy-testing-with-assertnumqueries/
On WebFaction, each host has it's own Apache instance, with WebFaction's main Apache instance forwarding requests. This is very useful but means that some of the original information is lost. This middleware should be installed at the top of your list to restore this lost info. It includes the functionality that used to be in SetRemoteAddrFromForwardedFor before it was removed from Django.
Django's test client is very limited when it comes to testing complex interactions e.g. forms with hidden or persisted values etc. Twill excels in this area, and thankfully it is very easy to integrate it. * Use `twill_setup` in your `TestCaseSubClass.setUp()` method * Use `twill_teardown` in `TestCaseSubClass.tearDown()` method * In a test, use something like `make_twill_url()` to generate URLs that will work for twill. * Use `twill.commands.go()` etc. to control twill, or use `twill.execute_string()` or `twill.execute_script()`. * Add `twill.set_output(StringIO())` to suppress twill output * If you want to write half the test, then use twill interactively to write the rest as a twill script, use the example in `unfinished_test()` Twill will raise exceptions if commands fail. This means you will get 'E' for error, rather than 'F' for fail in the test output. If necessary, it wouldn't be hard to wrap the twill commands to flag failure with TestCase.assert_ There are, of course, more advanced ways of using these functions (e.g. a mixin that does the setup/teardown for you), but the basic functions needed are here. See also: * [Twill](http://twill.idyll.org/) * [Twill Python API](http://twill.idyll.org/python-api.html)
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