Question

I recently made some changes to my development environment and came across a problem. I have a Django project in eclipse (using Pydev through the Aptana plugin), and I haven’t been able to use any of my custom django commands.

If I try to run a custom command, I get the following output:

Unknown command: 'resetdb'
Type 'manage.py help' for usage.

…But if I run the command from the command line, it works.

I’ve tried debugging, to see why the custom command doesn’t run, and it looks like django can’t find <project_name>.management, but I’m not sure why this previously worked.

Any ideas as to why I can’t get custom commands working?

In case it’s a problem with any of the software (and not my project), I have the following setup:

• Eclipse Galileo (3.5.2)
• Django 1.3
• Aptana Studio 3.0.6
• Python 2.6
• Ubuntu 10.10

EDIT:

Project structure is as follows:

• Project/
  • src/
    • Main/
      • management/
        • commands/
          • custom_command.py
      • manage.py
      • settings.py

Installed Apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'Main', # Enables us to use custom commands
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    #... plus apps for the project
)

Answer 1

When you run your custom commands from Eclipse, make sure the correct settings.py file is being used to start the environment. If Eclipse is somehow invoking the command with a default settings.py that doesn’t have your apps listed, this is the effect you would see.