Content tagged with "Django"

I am building a recipe app in django and I want to be able to test the app within the CI pipelines when I push to my self-hosted gitea repository.

The Problem

Github actions already has a postgresql action but this crashes when you run Gitea's Action runner via docker:

initdb: error: cannot be run as root
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I’ve seen a number of tutorials that incorrectly configure django to run inside docker containers by leveraging it’s built in dev server. In this post I explore the benefits of using django with gunicorn and nginx and how to set this up using Docker and docker-compose.

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As part of my work on Gastronaut, I'm building a form that allows users to create recipes and which will attempt to parse ingredients lists and find a suitable stock photo for each item the user adds to their recipe. As well as being cute and decorative, this step is important for later when we want to normalise ingredient quantities.

What we're looking to do is take a string like "2lbs flour" and turn it into structured data - a json representation might look like this:

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