Django 1.7 where to put the code to add Groups programmatically?

Question

I have been trying to find the answer in the Django Auth docs, but can not seem to find what I am looking for.

The problem I am having is, when I define the code for ad

Answer 1

I was recommended this way to do it:

Create a fake migration in the appropriate module:

python manage.py makemigrations --empty yourappname

Open up the file that was created, which should look like this:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django.db import models, migrations

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('yourappname', '0001_initial'),
    ]

    operations = [
    ]

And add your code:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django.db import models, migrations

def add_group_permissions():
    #read_only
    group, created = Group.objects.get_or_create(name='read_only')   
    if created:
        group.permissions.add(can_read_campaign)
        logger.info('read_only_user Group created')

    #standard
    group, created = Group.objects.get_or_create(name='standard_user') 
    if created:
        group.permissions.add(can_edit_users)
        logger.info('standard_user Group created')

    #admin
    group, created = Group.objects.get_or_create(name='admin_user') 
    if created:
        group.permissions.add(can_edit_campaign, can_edit_users)
        logger.info('admin_user Group created')

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('yourappname', '0001_initial'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.RunPython(add_group_permissions),
    ]

Finally, run the migration:

python manage.py migrate

This is nice because you can deploy to Heroku or wherever and be sure it'll be applied, as it's just another migration.