mac-evn

Django Development Environment Configuration on Mac OSX

Install XCode

Install Homebrew

You may need to keep XCode open while installing Homebrew to accept the agreement.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

Install Python via Homebrew

brew install python --with-brewed-openssl

Install MySQL Server

Download and install from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

Install PostgreSQL

brew install postgresql

To make it auto start on login, you have to run

ln -sfv /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.3.2/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Download and install PGAdmin from

http://www.pgadmin.org/

Start postgreSQL server

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start

Stop postgreSQL server

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop -s -m fast

Update login method in

vim /usr/local/var/postgres/pg_hba.conf

Create lib link, need to mkdir the /usr/local/opt/postgresql/lib/ folder first

ln /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.3.2/lib/libpq.5.6.dylib /usr/local/opt/postgresql/lib/libpq.5.6.dylib

Install Virtual Env

Install Virtualenv

pip install virtualenv

Edit or add bashrc for current user

vim ~/.bashrc

with content

# pip should only run if there is a virtualenv currently activated
export PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV=true
# cache pip-installed packages to avoid re-downloading
export PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE=$HOME/.pip/cache

create .bash_profile

vim ~/.bash_profile

with following contents

PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin/:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.3.2/bin/:$PATH"
export PATH

[[ -s ~/.bashrc ]] && source ~/.bashrc

reload bash environment

. ~/.bash_profile

Restricting pip to virtual environments

Add the following to ~./bashrc

syspip(){
   PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV="" pip "$@"
}

If in the future we want to upgrade our global packages, the above function enables us to do so via:

syspip install --upgrade pip setuptools virtualenv

Test Virtual Evnrionments

mkdir ~/Projects

cd ~/Projects

virtualenv test

cd test

activate it

. bin/activate

just type deactivate to deactivate current envrionment

create file pip_packages with following content

distribute
Django
MySQL-python
PIL
django-compressor
python-memcached
pyOpenSSL
boto
requests
humanize
psycopg2

install packages

pip install -r pip_packages

Install MySQL GUI

Download from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

Install Github App

Install CocoaPods

sudo gem install cocoapods