#python-django

Here's the setup from 0 to 127.0.0.1:8000 in 30 seconds:

I assume you already have python (below version 3.0) in your machine. You also have virtualenv (you can apt-get install python-virtualenv ) and pip. 

Testing somebody else's Django project is very simple. 

Take for example MrChild's Djangobase which is on Github.

I go to some directory in my computer, and clone his repository,

$ git clone git://github.com/mrchilds/djangobase.git

I create a virtual environment for the ocasion,

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages virtual-djangobase

and activate the environment,

$ source virtual-djangobase/bin/activate

(virtual-djangobase)$

so my console is now inside the new virtual environment.  Ok, from the README file on Github it seems it requires:

Django 1.3, 

django-extensions

werkzeug

django-registration

django-evolution

Let's install them in our virtual environment!  To check what's already installed we just do

(virtual-djangobase)$ pip freeze

wsgiref==0.1.2

So it's basically empty.  Let's install everything we need.

(virtual-djangobase)$ pip install django

(virtual-djangobase)$ pip install django-extensions

(virtual-djangobase)$ pip install Werkzeug

(virtual-djangobase)$ pip install django-registration

(virtual-djangobase)$ pip install django-evolution

Let's check if it worked:

(virtual-djangobase)$ pip freeze

Django==1.3.1 Werkzeug==0.8.1 django-evolution==0.6.5 django-extensions==0.7.1 django-registration==0.7 wsgiref==0.1.2

Perfect!  *note that if you were to leave the virtual environment with "$ deactivate" then "$pip freeze" would show something different.

so we go to the folder that was created upon clonning, synchronize the database and fire up the server:

(virtual-djangobase)$ cd djangobase/

(virtual-djangobase)$ python manage.py syncdb (virtual-djangobase)$ python manage.py runserver

Validating models... 0 errors found

Bingo!  Point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and you're done!