Haystack tweaks for Django 1.7.7. I had to upgrade to Haystack 2.3.1 to get it to work with Django 1.7.7. I also had to update the Xapian backend. But I ran into problems. On my laptop anyway (Ubuntu 14.0.4), xapian gets mad when search terms are greater than 245 chars (or something) when indexing. So I created a custom field that would simply omit terms greater than 64 chars and used this field everywhere I previously used a CharField. Secondly, the custom search form was broken now. Something changed in the Xapian backend and exact searches stopped working. Fortunately the auto_query (which I was using originally and broke during an upgrade) started working again. So I cut the search form back over to doing an auto_query. I kept the form the same (3 fields) because I didn't want to change the form and I think it's better that way.

from fabric.api import cd, run

PYTHON = '/svr/django-sites/sg101/bin/python'
PROJ_DIR = '/svr/django-sites/sg101/sg101'

def update():
    """
    Runs hg pull --update to pull changes and update to them.

    """
    with cd(PROJ_DIR):
        run('hg pull --update')


def collectstatic():
    """
    Runs the staticfiles collectstatic command to deploy static assets.

    """
    cmd = ('%s manage.py collectstatic '
        '--settings=sg101.settings.production --noinput') % PYTHON

    with cd(PROJ_DIR):
        run(cmd)


def touch():
    """
    Touches the wsgi file to reload the Python code.

    """
    with cd(PROJ_DIR):
        run('touch ./sg101/apache/sg101.wsgi')