Re: [sqlalchemy] Re: most established SQLA fixture tools?

2013-10-17 Thread Iain Duncan
Thanks Jonathan, Alembic has been on my to-check-out list for a while. Does anyone here use it for test db population? I'm honestly not seeing the big advantage of populating from json files, but I suppose there must be some. At any rate I have them from a previous project the same client has

Re: [sqlalchemy] Re: most established SQLA fixture tools?

2013-10-17 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
I don't , but should. I've just used database dumps and a homebrew system, because tools like this didn't exist when I first needed them. BUT it seems to offer the same functionality as Rails/Django migrations , which you will eventually need in your new Django-favoring environment. -- You

[sqlalchemy] Re: most established SQLA fixture tools?

2013-10-16 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
I saw this a while back: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mixer/1.1.6 which claims to handle both Django SqlAlchemy, so it might be more familiar to them. there are a few fixtures projects for Sqlalchemy on PyPi I *think* you might be able to get away with some stuff using Alembic, but