App management script

Coaster provides a Flask-Script-based manage.py with common management functions. To use in your Flask app, create a manage.py with this boilerplate:

from coaster.manage import manager, init_manager
from yourapp import app, db

@manager.command
def my_app_command()
    print "Hello!"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # If you have no custom commands, you can skip importing manager
    # and use the return value from init_manager
    manager = init_manager(app, db)
    manager.run()

To see all available commands:

$ python manage.py --help

coaster.manage.alembic_table_metadata()

Returns SQLAlchemy metadata and Alembic version table

coaster.manage.createdb()

Create database tables from sqlalchemy models

coaster.manage.dropdb()

Drop database tables

coaster.manage.init_manager(app, db, **kwargs)

Initialise Manager

Parameters:

• app – Flask app object
• kwargs – Additional keyword arguments to be made available as shell context

Parm db:

db instance

coaster.manage.set_alembic_revision(path=None)

Create/Update alembic table to latest revision number

coaster.manage.shell_context()

Supplies context variables for the shell