Heroku settings overrides

gistfile1.txt

# the usual settings.py above here

import urlparse
# Register database schemes in URLs.
urlparse.uses_netloc.append('postgres')

# Heroku overrides
try:
    # Check to make sure DATABASES is set in settings.py file.
    # If not default to {}

    if 'DATABASES' not in locals():
        DATABASES = {}

    if 'DATABASE_URL' in os.environ:
        url = urlparse.urlparse(os.environ['DATABASE_URL'])

        # Ensure default database exists.
        DATABASES['default'] = DATABASES.get('default', {})

        # Update with environment configuration.
        DATABASES['default'].update({
            'NAME': url.path[1:],
            'USER': url.username,
            'PASSWORD': url.password,
            'HOST': url.hostname,
            'PORT': url.port,
            })
        DATABASES['default']['ENGINE'] = 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2'
    if 'CACHES' not in locals():
        CACHES = {}
    if 'MEMCACHE_USERNAME' in os.environ:
        CACHES = {
            'default': {
                'BACKEND' : 'johnny.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
                'LOCATION': '%s:11211' % (os.environ['MEMCACHE_SERVERS']),
                'username': os.environ.get('MEMCACHE_USERNAME'),
                'password': os.environ.get('MEMCACHE_PASSWORD'),
                'JOHNNY_CACHE': True
            }
        }
except Exception as e:
    print " *** Caught exception in Heroku settings.py overrides: %s" % e