Development tools
=================

Plat/al relies on a few tools and base libraries.

Django
------

Our base framework, we're using the latest released version (currently 1.5.1).
Feel free to browse its excellent documentation at https://docs.djangoproject.com/


Bootstrap
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Our web layout relies on Twitter's Bootstrap framework.
We use a minified version based on Bootstrap v2.2.2.

The documentation is available at http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/.


factory_boy
-----------

For testing, we rely on `FactoryBoy <http://factoryboy.rtfd.org>`_.
This library allows to define custom "factories" for each model,
which ease populating the database (in ``xnet.datasets``) or writing tests:

.. code-block:: python

    class SomeTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
        def test_disabled_account(self):
            # Get a disabled account, don't bother filling any required field.
            account = factories.AccountFactory(is_active=False, password='foo')

            self.assertFalse(
                auth.authenticate(account.username, 'foo'))