Command line commands

Most Websauna commands take the configuration file, like development.ini, as their first argument. The command will be different depending on if you run it on development, staging or production environment.

Available commands

ws-pserve

Run a development web server on your local computer.

Example:

ws-pserve ws://development.ini --reload

This is a wrapped around Pyramid pserve command.

Warning

This command is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Websauna.

ws-proutes

Get an overview of all registered routes.

Example:

ws-proutes ws://development.ini

This is a wrapper around Pyramid’s proutes command.

Warning

This command is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Websauna.

ws-celery

A wrapper command for celery command, supporting config inclusion mechanism.

See Tasks.

ws-shell

Open IPython terminal shell prompt for interactive Python session with your application. It imports all your configured models by default, creates initial database session, so you are good to go to manipulate your application.

Example:

ws-shell ws://development.ini

ws-db-shell

ws-db-shell command opens pgcli command line tool for the configured PostgreSQL database.

Example:

ws-db-shell ws://development.ini

Then you can manipulate database directly using PostgreSQL commands. Example how to list tables:

websauna> \dt

Example results:

+----------+----------------+--------+---------+
| Schema   | Name           | Type   | Owner   |
|----------+----------------+--------+---------|
| public   | activation     | table  | moo     |
| public   | distributors   | table  | moo     |
| public   | foobar         | table  | moo     |
| public   | group          | table  | moo     |
| public   | referrals      | table  | moo     |
| public   | shortened_urls | table  | moo     |
| public   | user_group     | table  | moo     |
| public   | users          | table  | moo     |
+----------+----------------+--------+---------+
SELECT 8

How to check table schema for table review:

trees> \d+ review

Example output:

+-------------+--------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-----------+----------------+---------------+
| Column      | Type                     | Modifiers                                           | Storage   |   Stats target |   Description |
|-------------+--------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-----------+----------------+---------------|
| id          | integer                  | not null default nextval('review_id_seq'::regclass) | plain     |         <null> |        <null> |
| created_at  | timestamp with time zone |                                                     | plain     |         <null> |        <null> |
| updated_at  | timestamp with time zone |                                                     | plain     |         <null> |        <null> |
| customer_id | integer                  |                                                     | plain     |         <null> |        <null> |
| delivery_id | integer                  |                                                     | plain     |         <null> |        <null> |
| uuid        | uuid                     |                                                     | plain     |         <null> |        <null> |
| product     | character varying(32)    |                                                     | extended  |         <null> |        <null> |
| rating      | integer                  |                                                     | plain     |         <null> |        <null> |
| review_data | jsonb                    |                                                     | extended  |         <null> |        <null> |
+-------------+--------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-----------+----------------+---------------+

Then you can exit from pgcli:

\q

pgcli configuration file is in /.config/pgcli/config. For example, to disable less paging you can add:

pager = cat

ws-create-table

Print out SQL CREATE TABLE statements needed to construct currently configured models.

Example:

ws-create-table ws://development.ini

ws-alembic

Run Alembic SQLAlchemy database migrations.

For more information see migrations.

ws-dump-db

Print PostgreSQL SQL to stdout from the currently configured database. This is equivalent of running pg_dump command with some arguments against the SQLAlchemy database configured in given INI file.

Example how to backup your development database:

ws-dump-db ws://development.ini > dump.sql

Example how to get a remote production database to your local computer:

ssh myserver -C "sudo -i -u wsgi /srv/pyramid/company.application/venv/bin/ws-dump-db ws:///srv/pyramid/company.application/company/application/conf/generated.ini" > dump.sql

ws-sanity-check

Performs database sanity check.

Exit values:

  • 0: All ok

  • 10: Sanity check failed - we have unrun migrations

  • Any other value: Launch failed due to Python exception or similar

Example:

ws-sanity-check ws://conf/production.ini

ws-tweens

Display Pyramid tween stack.

Example:

ws-tweens ws://development.ini

Example output:

"pyramid.tweens" config value NOT set (implicitly ordered tweens used)

Implicit Tween Chain

Position    Name
--------    ----
-           INGRESS
0           pyramid_debugtoolbar.toolbar_tween_factory
1           pyramid.tweens.excview_tween_factory
2           pyramid_tm.tm_tween_factory
3           websauna.referral.tweens.ReferralCookieTweenFactory
-           MAIN

Warning

This command is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Websauna.

ws-sync-db

Create initial tables for the database configuration in the settings file. This equals running Base.metadata.create_all() SQLAlchemy command.

Example:

ws-sync-db ws://development.ini

Note

Using ws-sync-db is command is not recommended outside testing and prototyping. If you edit your models ws-sync-db doesn’t know what to do and you need to drop your tables and data and start over. To have repeatable changes to your databases, use ws-alembic command instead.

ws-create-user

Create a new site user. If this user is the first user of the site the user becomes an administrator.

Note

Recommended only to be used on a local development site. For a production sites for the first user do a normal email sign up.

Example:

ws-create-user ws://development.ini [email protected]

Note

It is possible to give password as the third command line argument, but this is not recommended because the password is recorded to your shell history.

ws-collect-static

Read through all configured static views and compile their assets to collected-static folder.

This needs to be run on production and staging server where one has configured cache busting policy.

Example:

ws-collect-static ws://conf/production.ini

For more information see static assets.