Question

I render some pdf from some templates in my project. Well, it seems to work, but…

…I wanna test it!

Problem is that some files I read during rendering are in STATIC_ROOT – so I need to collectstatic when I run tests (kinda wierd!).

Question is: is there a way to work with STATIC_ROOT during testing, but without ‘real’ collecting static?

Answer 1

I use following way. In you project directory create a file named dev_static_finder.py with these contents.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage
from django.contrib.staticfiles.finders import BaseStorageFinder
from django.conf import settings

class StaticRootFinder(BaseStorageFinder):
    storage = FileSystemStorage(settings.STATIC_ROOT, settings.STATIC_URL)

Add this line to your settings.py

STATICFILES_FINDERS += ('dev_static_finder.StaticRootFinder',)

I don’t know an easer way.