Trying to generate rows in a table - django

Question

here's what my models look like:
http://i.imgur.com/fFBqq.png
I'm trying to fill out a table full of disks, each has a serial and model number. I'm going to assume I'll do something like {% for disks in "something" %}, but I'm not quite sure what that something would be.
Here's what i was hoping for:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Serial Number</th>
<th>Model Number</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
{% for disks in "something" %}
<tr>
<td>{{ disk.serial }}</td>
<td>{{ disk.model }}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}

Answer 1

The template is only part of your issue. It's actually the less complicated aspect, as all you are doing is passing it a context (a dictionary) for it to access. The step before the template is the view that is organizing the data. Lets start with that...
View
The function (view) that gathers the data needs to build a context containing your "disk" objects, assumably a result of a database model query. For simplicity, lets just say you did this:
disks = Disk.objects.all()
With your disks queryset, you can now deliver that to your template in the context.
context = {"disks": disks}
return render_to_response('my_template.html', context)
The context will now be passed to your template.
Template
Simply refer to the objects in your context:
{% for disk in disks %}
<tr>
<td>{{ disk.serial }}</td>
<td>{{ disk.model }}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}

Answer 2

#jdi is right, but since this is something very commonly done in web development - there is a generic view for it.
In your urls.py:
from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
from django.views.generic import ListView
from myapp.models import Disk
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^disk_list/$', ListView.as_view(
model=Disk,
template_name='disk_list.html'
)),
)
Create a file called disk_list.html, that is any directory listed in TEMPLATE_DIRS, and in it add this:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Serial Number</th>
<th>Model Number</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
{% for disk in object_list %}
<tr>
<td>{{ disk.serial }}</td>
<td>{{ disk.model }}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
Finally, navigate to http://localhost:8000/disk_list/