some fixes?

.env.dev

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+# Django
+DEBUG=1
+SECRET_KEY=w(s0&(_eb058wvmg@44_repv8)r9@5p8fx*g_@c)1dm&d*ew^u
+DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost 127.0.0.1 [::1]
+
+# External DB (you mentioned production uses an external DB)
+DATABASE_HOST=db-postgresql-lon1-05515-jan-22-backup-do-user-8165014-0.c.db.ondigitalocean.com
+DATABASE_PORT=25060
+DATABASE_NAME=testing
+DATABASE_USER=testing
+DATABASE_PASSWORD=AVNS_ykXO4RxAq0zeJTI-1Nl
+
+# Redis
+REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
+
+# Gunicorn tuning
+GUNICORN_WORKERS=3
+GUNICORN_LOGLEVEL=info

docker/.env.dev

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-DEBUG=1
-SECRET_KEY=w(s0&(_eb058wvmg@44_repv8)r9@5p8fx*g_@c)1dm&d*ew^u
-DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost 127.0.0.1 [::1]
-
-DB_NAME=rad
-DB_HOST=db
-DB_USER=django
-DB_PASSWORD=postgres
-DB_PORT=5432
-
-MEMCACHE_HOST=cache
-
-# DEV-specific vars used by rad/settings_local.py
-DEV_USE_POSTGRES=1
-DEV_DB_NAME=${DB_NAME}
-DEV_DB_USER=${DB_USER}
-DEV_DB_PASSWORD=${DB_PASSWORD}
-DEV_DB_HOST=${DB_HOST}
-DEV_DB_PORT=${DB_PORT}
-
-# pgAdmin creds
-PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL=admin@example.com
-PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD=admin

docker/docker-compose.dev.yml

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+# Development override: point the web service to rad/.env.dev and map nginx to
+# non-privileged host ports so you can run without sudo.
+
+services:
+  web:
+    env_file:
+      - ../.env.dev
+
+  nginx:
+    ports:
+      - "8080:80"
+      - "8443:443"

docker/docker-compose.prod.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-version: "3.8"
-
 services:
   redis:
     image: redis:7.4.2-alpine
@@ -18,8 +16,10 @@ services:
       context: ..
       dockerfile: rad/Dockerfile.prod
     restart: always
+    # Use COMPOSE_ENV to select which env file to load (defaults to 'prod').
+    # Example: COMPOSE_ENV=dev docker compose -f rad/docker/docker-compose.prod.yml -f rad/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml up -d
     env_file:
-      - ../.env.prod
+      - ../.env.${COMPOSE_ENV:-prod}
     environment:
       - DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=rad.settings.production
     depends_on:

rad.code-workspace

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+{
+	"folders": [
+		{
+			"name": "rad",
+			"path": "."
+		}
+	],
+	"settings": {
+		"python.testing.pytestArgs": [
+			"."
+		],
+		"python.testing.unittestEnabled": false,
+		"python.testing.pytestEnabled": true
+	}
+}

rad/Dockerfile.prod

@@ -15,13 +15,14 @@ RUN apt-get update \
          libpq-dev \
          pkg-config \
          libcairo2-dev \
-       libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 \
-       libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev \
+         # some distributions provide libgdk-pixbuf under the xlib name
+         libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0 \
+         libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-dev \
          libjpeg-dev \
          zlib1g-dev \
          wget \
          ca-certificates \
-       netcat \
+         netcat-openbsd \
      && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 WORKDIR /usr/src/app

scripts/local-down.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)"
+cd "$REPO_ROOT"
+
+docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.prod.yml -f docker/docker-compose.test.yml -f docker/docker-compose.dev.yml down --volumes --remove-orphans

scripts/local-up.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# Simple local bring-up helper. Usage:
+#   ./rad/scripts/local-up.sh
+# It requires rad/.env.dev to exist (do NOT auto-create from examples) and then
+# runs the prod+dev compose stack using COMPOSE_ENV to select the env file.
+
+REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)"
+cd "$REPO_ROOT"
+
+if [ ! -f .env.dev ]; then
+  echo ".env.dev not found. Create .env.dev with your development values (pointing to the external dev DB) and re-run."
+  echo "You can copy .env.prod.example to start from a template, but DO NOT commit secrets."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Default to 'dev' but allow overriding with COMPOSE_ENV environment variable
+COMPOSE_ENV=${COMPOSE_ENV:-dev}
+
+echo "Starting compose with COMPOSE_ENV=$COMPOSE_ENV (using .env.$COMPOSE_ENV)"
+COMPOSE_ENV=$COMPOSE_ENV docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.prod.yml -f docker/docker-compose.dev.yml up -d --build