course.xml includes work

auth/models.py

@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ class UserProfile(models.Model):
     meta = models.TextField(blank=True) # JSON dictionary for future expansion
     courseware = models.TextField(blank=True, default='course.xml')
 
+# class UserTestGroup(models.Model):
+#     ''' Group used for user tests. 
+#     E.g. groupname = 'metacognition' and groupsection = ['A','B']
+#     '''
+#     groupname = models.TextField(blank=True)
+#     groupsection = models.TextField(blank=True)
+#     user = models.ManyToManyField(User)
+
 class Registration(models.Model):
     ''' Allows us to wait for e-mail before user is registered. A
         registration profile is created when the user creates an 

courseware/content_parser.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import hashlib
 
 from lxml import etree
 from mako.template import Template
+from mako.lookup import TemplateLookup
 
 try: # This lets us do __name__ == ='__main__'
     from django.conf import settings
@@ -88,12 +89,17 @@ def id_tag(course):
         else:
             elem.set('id', fasthash(etree.tostring(elem)))    
 
+template_lookup = TemplateLookup(directories = [settings.DATA_DIR], 
+                                 module_directory = settings.MAKO_MODULE_DIR)
+
 def course_file(user):
     # TODO: Cache. 
-    filename = settings.DATA_DIR+UserProfile.objects.get(user=user).courseware
-    data_template = Template(filename=filename)
+    filename = UserProfile.objects.get(user=user).courseware
+    data_template = template_lookup.get_template(filename)
 
-    tree = etree.XML(data_template.render())
+    options = {'dev_content':True}
+
+    tree = etree.XML(data_template.render(**options))
     id_tag(tree)
     return tree
 

settings_new_askbot.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import os
 import sys
+import tempfile
 
 import djcelery
 
@@ -134,10 +135,14 @@ TRACK_MAX_EVENT = 1000
 MAXLOG = 500
 
 LOG_DIR = "/tmp/"
+MAKO_MODULE_DIR = None
 
 # Make sure we execute correctly regardless of where we're called from
 execfile(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "settings.py"))
 
+if MAKO_MODULE_DIR == None:
+    MAKO_MODULE_DIR = tempfile.mkdtemp('mako')
+
 # A sample logging configuration. The only tangible logging
 # performed by this configuration is to send an email to
 # the site admins on every HTTP 500 error.