Question

I’m begining to use Fabric for a Django production server.
Here is my fabfile.py

from fabric.api import *
env.hosts = ['[e-mail]']
def srefresh():
  with path('~me/myproject'):
    run('python manage.py collectstatic')
    sudo('apachectl restart')

And here is the output

$ fab srefresh
[[e-mail]] Executing task ‘srefresh’
[[e-mail]] run: python manage.py collectstatic
[[e-mail]] out: python: can’t open file ‘manage.py’: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong ?
(not sure I’m using the with context manager well)

Answer 1

Actually, it’s quite clearly written in the docs. fabric.context_managers.path alters the PATH variable. fabric.context_managers.cd can be used to change the remote directory. So in your case:

def srefresh():
    with cd('~me/myproject'):
        run('python manage.py collectstatic')

should do the trick.