GingerDJ FAQ

• FAQ: General
  • Why does this project exist?
  • Is GingerDJ stable?
  • Does GingerDJ scale?
  • Who’s behind this?
  • How is GingerDJ licensed?
  • Why does GingerDJ include Python’s license file?
  • Which sites use GingerDJ?
  • GingerDJ appears to be a MVC framework, but you call the Controller the “view”, and the View the “template”. How come you don’t use the standard names?
  • <Framework X> does <feature Y> – why doesn’t GingerDJ?
  • Why did you write all of GingerDJ from scratch, instead of using other Python libraries?
  • Is GingerDJ a content-management-system (CMS)?
  • How can I download the GingerDJ documentation to read it offline?
  • How do I cite GingerDJ?
• FAQ: Installation
  • How do I get started?
  • What are GingerDJ’s prerequisites?
  • What Python version can I use with GingerDJ?
  • What Python version should I use with GingerDJ?
  • Should I use the stable version or development version?
• FAQ: Using GingerDJ
  • Why do I get an error about importing GINGER_SETTINGS_MODULE?
  • I can’t stand your template language. Do I have to use it?
  • Do I have to use your model/database layer?
  • How do I use image and file fields?
  • How do I make a variable available to all my templates?
• FAQ: Databases and models
  • How can I see the raw SQL queries GingerDJ is running?
  • Can I use GingerDJ with a preexisting database?
  • If I make changes to a model, how do I update the database?
  • Do GingerDJ models support multiple-column primary keys?
  • Does GingerDJ support NoSQL databases?
  • How do I add database-specific options to my CREATE TABLE statements, such as specifying MyISAM as the table type?
• FAQ: The admin
  • I can’t log in. When I enter a valid username and password, it just brings up the login page again, with no error messages.
  • How do I automatically set a field’s value to the user who last edited the object in the admin?
  • How do I limit admin access so that objects can only be edited by the users who created them?
  • My admin-site CSS and images showed up fine using the development server, but they’re not displaying when using mod_wsgi.
  • My “list_filter” contains a ManyToManyField, but the filter doesn’t display.
  • Some objects aren’t appearing in the admin.
  • How can I customize the functionality of the admin interface?
  • The dynamically-generated admin site is ugly! How can I change it?
  • What browsers are supported for using the admin?
  • What assistive technologies are supported for using the admin?
• Troubleshooting
  • Problems running gingerdj-admin
  • Miscellaneous