Removed caching for dev machines

courseware/content_parser.py

@@ -151,7 +151,13 @@ def user_groups(user):
     # TODO: Rewrite in Django
     key = 'user_group_names_{user.id}'.format(user=user)
     cache_expiration = 60 * 60 # one hour
-    group_names = cache.get(fasthash(key))
+    
+    # Kill caching on dev machines -- we switch groups a lot
+    if "dev" not in setting.DEFAULT_GROUPS:
+        group_names = cache.get(fasthash(key))
+    else: 
+        group_names = None
+ 
     if group_names is None:
         group_names = [u.name for u in UserTestGroup.objects.filter(users=user)]
         cache.set(fasthash(key), group_names, cache_expiration)

settings.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import tempfile
 import djcelery
 
 # from settings2.askbotsettings import LIVESETTINGS_OPTIONS
+DEFAULT_GROUPS = []
 
 # Configuration option for when we want to grab server error pages
 STATIC_GRAB = False

student/models.py

@@ -103,3 +103,8 @@ def add_user_to_group(group, user):
     utg = UserTestGroup.objects.get(name = group)
     utg.users.add(User.objects.get(username = user))
     utg.save()
+
+def remove_user_from_group(group, user):
+    utg = UserTestGroup.objects.get(name = group)
+    utg.users.add(User.objects.get(username = user))
+    utg.save()