Django Knowledge Share

Microblog app used to share quick knowledge. This code powers Vinta's lessons learned running at http://www.vinta.com.br/lessons-learned/.

The posts are created via slack using a custom command and are automatically posted on twitter.

Quickstart

Install Django Knowledge Share:

pip install django-knowledge-share

Create an app for your microblog:

python manage.py startapp microblog

Add it to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    "microblog",
    "knowledge_share",
    ...
)

In your urls.py add the urls entry:

url(r'^', include('knowledge_share.urls', namespace='microblog')),

In your microblog/models.py create your models by inheriting from the abstract models:

# customize those models as needed
from knowledge_share import models as knowledge_share_abstract_models


class MicroBlogPost(knowledge_share_abstract_models.MicroBlogPostBase):
    pass


class MicroBlogCategory(knowledge_share_abstract_models.MicroBlogCategoryBase):
    pass

Then create and run your migrations:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Documentation

Models

You can see the available models and it's fields here. They are all abstract and you need to create an instance of it (see Quickstart section).

Slack Integration

Create a custom command in this page: https://my.slack.com/services/new/slash-commands.

Set the url to your slack endpoint, by default https://yoursite.com/microblog/integrations/slack-slash/ Copy the generated token and add to your settings.py as "SLACK_TOKEN='your-token'". To send a new post use /yourcommand This is a blog post content [Category, Another Category]

Twitter Integration

You will need to set the following settings using your twitter data:

TWITTER_API_KEY
TWITTER_API_SECRET
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

Whenever new posts are created it will be posted to twitter.

Template tags

Whenever you are showing the content of the post you should use:

{% load microblog %}

{{ post.content|convert_to_html }}

If you want to create a link with the content to be shared you can use:

{% load microblog %}

<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text={{ post|format_post }}">
    Share on twitter
</a>

RSS Feed

There is a RSS feed served by default at /microblog/feed/.

Configuration

The following configurations are available:

# settings.py

# name of the app created with your microblog's models
KNOWLEDGE_APP_NAME = 'microblog'
# the title of the rss feed (available at: /microblog/feed/)
KNOWLEDGE_FEED_TITLE = 'microblog'
# the link of the feed
KNOWLEDGE_FEED_LINK = '/microblog/'
# Either to use twitter or not
KNOWLEDGE_USE_TWITTER = True

Running Tests

source <YOURVIRTUALENV>/bin/activate
(myenv) $ pip install tox
(myenv) $ tox

Credits

Tools used in rendering this package:

• Cookiecutter
• cookiecutter-djangopackage