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Expand Up @@ -10,13 +10,26 @@ database versions, including Oracle.

## Quickstart

Clone this repository somewhere. Also make sure you have docker and docker-compose installed.
Clone this repository and ensure you have docker and docker-compose installed.

Ensure that the `DJANGO_PATH` variable points to the root of the Django repo:
### Environment

You must set the `DJANGO_PATH` environment variable to the path of your local Django installation.
This can either be added to the `.env` file, or interactively set in your shell, like so:

`export DJANGO_PATH=~/projects/django/`

If you see a docker-compose warning about it not being defined followed by an error ensure that is defined in the shell you are using.
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I removed this because I tested the error and it is extremely specific and could not be confused - not necessary to have here.

You must also check the `.env` file (in the root of this repository) and ensure that the versions
of both Python and and database(s) you wish to test against are properly configured. For example,
Django 5.0 requires Python 3.10 (or later) and PostgreSQL 13 (or later), so if you wish to
test against Django 5.0 with PostgreSQL, an appropriate `.env` file may be:

```env
PYTHON_VERSION=3.10
POSTGRES_VERSION=13
```

### Running tests

You can now either download the latest image used on the CI servers with the dependencies pre-installed:

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`docker-compose build sqlite`

Then simply run:
Then run the following command to test against SQLite:

`docker-compose run --rm sqlite`

All arguments are passed to `runtests.py`. Before they are run all specific dependencies are
installed (and cached across runs).

## Different databases
### Different databases

Simply substitute `sqlite` for any supported database:

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`docker-compose up`

#### Database versions
### Setting versions

You can customize the version of the database you test against by changing the appropriate `[db]_VERSION` environment variable. See the Configuration section below for the available options and their defaults.
For convenience, you may quickly change between Python and database versions by setting the
appropriate environment variables inline, for example:

## Different Python versions
`PYTHON_VERSION=3.12 POSTGRES_VERSION=15 docker-compose pull postgres`

The `PYTHON_VERSION` environment variable customizes which version of Python you are running the tests against. e.g:
Or run the following command to run the tests immediately:

`PYTHON_VERSION=3.8 docker-compose run --rm sqlite`

You can also pull the pre-built image in the same way:

`PYTHON_VERSION=3.8 docker-compose pull sqlite`
`PYTHON_VERSION=3.12 POSTGRES_VERSION=15 docker-compose run --rm postgres`

## Oracle

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| `MYSQL_VERSION` | `8` | The mysql version to use |
| `MARIADB_VERSION` | `10.4` | The mariadb version to use |


## Why?

I prefer using docker over Vagrant and virtualbox, which is what django-box uses. I think this
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