Fabric for Django

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

set(
    fab_hosts = ['host.com'],
    fab_user = 'user',
    server_path = '/home/user/django/apache2/bin',
    project_path = '/home/user/django/project',
    memcached_ip = 'IP',
    memcached_port = 'PORT',
    memcached_size = '20', # in MByte
)

def deploy():
    "Push local changes, pull changes on server, delete compiled files, restart server"
    local('git push;', fail='warn')
    run('cd $(project_path)/; git pull; delpyc', fail='warn')
    restart_server()
    
def stop_server():
    "Stop Apache"
    run('$(server_path)/stop', fail='warn')

def start_server():
    "Start Apache"
    run('$(server_path)/start', fail='warn')

def restart_server():
    "Restart Apache"
    run('$(server_path)/stop', fail='warn')
    run('$(server_path)/start', fail='warn')

def restart_memcached():
    "Restart Memcached"
    run('kill `pgrep -u $LOGNAME memcached`', fail='warn')
    run('/usr/local/bin/memcached -d -l $(memcached_ip) -m $(memcached_size) -p $(memcached_port)', fail='warn')
    restart_server()

Fabric has many nice functions now, even though I didn’t needed them in this script. The documentation is now at http://fabfile.org/