Question

When I run tests on my remote server using fabric, I get an error saying:

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 138, in find_template
raise TemplateDoesNotExist(name)
TemplateDoesNotExist: index.html

I am trying to render the template as a string using “render_to_string()”
If I login to the server and run tests manually (python manage.py test app), it is working properly. This error occurs while running through fabric.

Here is my fabric code:

from __future__ import with_statement
from fabric.api import local
import os
from fabric.api import *

env.hosts = ['server.com']
production_project_path = '/path/to/production/app/'

def run_remote_test():
    run("python %s/manage.py test app"%production_project_path)

Did I miss something?
Note: I am not using virtual environment

Answer 1

Then let’s make this official. 😉

In this case, the problem was the fact that manage.py expects to be ran from the project directory, so rewriting the abovestanding as:

from __future__ import with_statement
from fabric.api import local
import os
from fabric.api import *

env.hosts = ['server.com']
production_project_path = '/path/to/production/app/'

def run_remote_test():
    with cd(production_project_path):
        run("python manage.py test app")

has fixed the issue.