When I try to build epub on Ubuntu, some error occurred and I did install LaTeX. I still didn't figured out why.
So could you please build a epub?
Thanks.

Should be able to build with warnings as errors successfully.

The virtualenv step is ok, but make fails.

$ uname -a
Darwin harveys-MacBook-Pro-2.local 12.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.5.0: Sun Sep 29 13:33:47 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.48.12~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

$ python -V
Python 2.7.2

$ make html
./bin/sphinx-build -b html -d _build/doctrees -D latex_paper_size=letter . _build/
Running Sphinx v1.2b3
loading pickled environment... not yet created
building [html]: targets for 21 source files that are out of date
updating environment: 21 added, 0 changed, 0 removed
/Users/harvey/effective-django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/parsers/rst/states.py:2103: UserWarning: The notslides directive has been deprecated; replace with ifnotslides
result = directive_instance.run()
/Users/harvey/effective-django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/parsers/rst/states.py:2103: UserWarning: The slides directive has been deprecated; replace with ifslides
result = directive_instance.run()
reading sources... [ 61%] tutorial/additional-views
Exception occurred:
File "/Users/harvey/effective-django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sh.py", line 348, in _handle_exit_code
self.process.stderr
ErrorReturnCode_1:

RAN: '/usr/local/bin/git checkout edit_contact_view'

STDOUT:

STDERR:
error: pathspec 'edit_contact_view' did not match any file(s) known to git.
The full traceback has been saved in /var/folders/g5/_l__wycd12jgd65s24w_1kk80000gn/T/sphinx-err-5kIkin.log, if you want to report the issue to the developers.
Please also report this if it was a user error, so that a better error message can be provided next time.
Either send bugs to the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users/,
or report them in the tracker at http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issues/. Thanks!
make: *** [html] Error 1

I've followed the guides but i get an error for the file blockdiag (removed the line in views.rst to fix) but the pdf generated have only 41 page repsect to epub version downloadable from the site that have 140+ pages.

Your Contact permission example looks like exactly what I need in order to do instance level permission checking for a model. From the text, it sounds like the information I need is in ContactOwnerMixin - but I don't see the code for that class. Is that available somewhere?

This has caused a few questions over personal email.

• VPS (Linode, Digital Ocean?)
• Heroku
• EC2
• Ansible for extra credit

My steps:

git clone https://github.com/pydanny/effective-django
python bootstrap.py
bin/buildout

Result? See https://gist.github.com/pydanny/5303555

On this page of the tutorial:

http://effectivedjango.com/tutorial/related.html

forms.py should include:

from contacts.models import Address

Thanks for the tutorial - super educational.

As reported by Maciej Friedel:

I found solution on problem in Your tutorial.
in section Handling Authentication & Authorization (http://effectivedjango.com/tutorial/authzn.html)

in last contacts/models.py correction there is:

owner = models.ForeignKey(User)

but this is not correct and displaying error

because there is migration problem

% python manage.py makemigrations
You are trying to add a non-nullable field 'owner' to contact without a default;
we can't do that (the database needs something to populate existing rows).
Please select a fix:
1) Provide a one-off default now (will be set on all existing rows)
2) Quit, and let me add a default in models.py
Select an option:

the problem resolved this input:

owner = models.ForeignKey(User, null=True, blank=True, default = None)

after successful migration there can be owner = models.ForeignKey(User) but migration needed this default settings

On http://www.effectivedjango.com/ the pdf link return to a 404

Since when has that ever been the case?

It saves all the fields, not just the ones changed. You can specify a subset with update_fields but normally it will save all.

effectivedjango.com is currently hosted on my personal linode. I'm trying to get out of the hosting business. This could easily be served from github pages or RTD.

I want to include effective django as an additional reference in the new Appendix C of Two Scoops of Django. Unfortunately, our rule is that resources listed in that Appendix need to be 'modern', or referring to Django 1.5.