Running the django tests using fabric

Question

I have a fabric script that attempts to run the tests for an application that I wrote.
It is already installed using setup.py and I am able to import it.
I am following the script I found here.
My problem is that django-admin doesn't find my app:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/fabric/main.py", line 542, in main commands[name](*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/envconf/fabfile.py", line 35, in test management.call_command('test', 'envconf') File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 166, in call_command return klass.execute(*args, **defaults) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 220, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/commands/test.py", line 37, in handle failures = test_runner.run_tests(test_labels)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/test/simple.py", line 395, in run_tests suite = self.build_suite(test_labels, extra_tests) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/test/simple.py", line 285, in build_suite app = get_app(label) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 140, in get_app raise ImproperlyConfigured("App with label %s could not be found" % app_label) django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: App with label envconf could not be found

Here's my code: import functools import os

from fabric.api import local, cd, env
from fabric.contrib.project import rsync_project
from django.conf import settings
from django.core import management

NAME = os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(__file__))
ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

os.environ['PYTHONPATH'] = os.pathsep.join([ROOT])

env.hosts = ['omer.me']

local = functools.partial(local, capture=False)

def test():
    settings.configure(DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': '.',
        'USER': '',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': '',
        'PORT': '',
        }
    },
    INSTALLED_APPS = ('envconf', ))

    print os.environ
    management.call_command('test', 'envconf')

What could be wrong?

the_drow the_drow · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-13T23:15:06

I found the problem while digging into the code.
For some reason you cannot run the tests if you have no models.py file.

Opened an issue in django's trac.

Running the django tests using fabric

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