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PostgreSQL text search in Django

Feb. 14, 2017 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

College Conductor gives educational consultants and counselors access to the information of thousands of U.S. colleges and universities. The most natural method to find these schools is through search. Since College Conductor keeps up with the latest versions of Django, I was able to add search by using PostgreSQL’s full text search that is exposed to the Django ORM. The search features are not perfect, but they provide results quickly and avoid bringing in a more targeted tool like Elast…

Rollbar monitoring of Celery in a Django app

Feb. 7, 2017 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

The last Rollbar post that I made covered how to integrate Rollbar into your Ember application. As a reminder, Rollbar is a service that let’s you record your errors wherever they happen. In that original post, I didn’t cover how to include Rollbar in a Django application because the Rollbar team does a great job of that in their own documentation. But what happens when you want to do asynchronous task management with Celery in your Django app?

Sideload JSON API resources in Django

Jan. 10, 2017 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

I’m a big proponent of using a framework to reduce the time required to make something useful. Occasionally, using a framework means that developers must explore to understand what is possible. This truth is even more evident when there are layers of extensions to achieve a desired result. For instance, College Conductor is driving an EmberJS app with a JSON API powered by Django. The API uses the excellent Django REST Framework and the DRF JSON API extension.