Local Dev of Silk. Template Error.

[hanleyhansen]

Trying to do some dev on silk but the local project isn't working? I installed migrations and made migrations for the example_app project but when i run it and visit the example_app/ route i got the following error. Bad templates config? The settings file looks like it's for an older version of Django yet the requirements list a django dependency of >1.8 which is when the new TEMPLATES settings structure was introduced.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/wsgiref/handlers.py", line 85, in run
    self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)
  File "/Users/hanleyhansen/venv/silk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/handlers.py", line 63, in __call__
    return self.application(environ, start_response)
  File "/Users/hanleyhansen/venv/silk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 177, in __call__
    response = self.get_response(request)
  File "/Users/hanleyhansen/venv/silk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 230, in get_response
    response = self.handle_uncaught_exception(request, resolver, sys.exc_info())
  File "/Users/hanleyhansen/venv/silk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 149, in get_response
    response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
  File "/Users/hanleyhansen/venv/silk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 147, in get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/Users/hanleyhansen/git/silk/project/example_app/views.py", line 16, in index
    return render('example_app/index.html', {'blinds': models.Blind.objects.all()})
  File "/Users/hanleyhansen/venv/silk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/shortcuts.py", line 67, in render
    template_name, context, request=request, using=using)
  File "/Users/hanleyhansen/venv/silk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 96, in render_to_string
    template = get_template(template_name, using=using)
  File "/Users/hanleyhansen/venv/silk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 43, in get_template
    raise TemplateDoesNotExist(template_name, chain=chain)
TemplateDoesNotExist: {'blinds': []}
[08/Jul/2016 13:19:31] "GET /example_app/ HTTP/1.1" 500 59

Any ideas? Or am I doing this wrong? Can you add some docs around local dev. Would love to contribute to this project as we are introducing it to our infrastructure.

[hanleyhansen]

Start this PR to try to get things going. #122

Any feedback appreciated.

[hanleyhansen]

This issue was resolved in my linked pr. Will close once my pr is merged.

[avelis]

@hanleyhansen I merged your PR. Thanks for addressing this issue. I greatly appreciate you fixing the failing unit tests.