Cleaner way to handle files and images

[philippeluickx]

Hey!

First of all, thanks for a great package! I am using model mommy for generating models that include images and files, which is handled quite graciously. However, I did notice that this polutes the projects media folder, which is minor but annoying.

I guess there are multiple solutions to this:

• change the settings when running the tests so that it uses a different temporary folder to store files
• delete the files after running the tests
• use in-memory files instead (something like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8611651/generate-in-memory-image-for-django-testing)

What is your opinion about this?

[vkurup]

Another option: http://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2013/06/26/media-root-and-django-tests/

[vandersonmota]

I think @vkurup 's approach is good, since it is not really mommy's responsability to cleanup the folder. If you're using another package, or even doing it yourself, you'll run into this problem as well.

[philippeluickx]

Yup, looks good to me! Useful in a very generic way, thanks for the info @vkurup ! @vandersonmota you can close this issue then, but might be a good one for poiting to in the docs?

[vandersonmota]

@philippeluickx maybe it is. But we need to refactor mommy's docs. README is getting pretty big.