Contained herein is some stuff I've found useful when setting up new Django projects.

You'll need to set up proto_django/settings/local_settings.py, but to review/find the variables you need to set you can run python manage.py test proto_django.tests until you don't get any errors.

Prerequisites

• Postgres
• Python 2.7
• RabbitMQ
• virtualenv and virtualenv-wrapper

Customizing for your environment

1. Rename the project:

    PROJECT_NAME=example
    find * -type f -print0 | xargs -0 perl -i.bak -pe "s|proto_django|$PROJECT_NAME|g"
    find . -name '*.bak' -exec rm {} \;
    mv proto_django $PROJECT_NAME
   

2. Set up rabbitmq:

    PROJECT_NAME=example
    RABBIT_USER=$PROJECT_NAME
    RABBIT_VHOST=$PROJECT_NAME
    RABBIT_PASS=
    sudo rabbitmqctl add_user $RABBIT_USER $RABBIT_PASS
    sudo rabbitmqctl add_vhost $RABBIT_VHOST
    sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p $RABBIT_VHOST $RABBIT_USER '.*' '.*' '.*'
   

3. Install binaries:

• postgresql server
• graphviz and graphviz-devel

3. Install virtualenv and modules so that you can have Django:

    make virtualenv
    workon $PROJECT_NAME
   

4. Generate a SECRET_KEY for your local settings:

    from django.utils.crypto import get_random_string
    
    chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!@#$%^&*(-_=+)'
    get_random_string(50, chars)
   

5. Set up your local_settings.py in $PROJECT_NAME/settings/local_settings.py:

    SECRET_KEY = u'CONTENTS-FROM-THE-ABOVE-STEP'
    BROKER_URL = "" # have the shell echo "amqp://$RABBIT_USER:$RABBIT_PASS@localhost/$RABBIT_VHOST"
    CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = "amqp"
    CELERY_CONCURRENCY = 1
    CELERYD_NODES = "w1"
   
    # Example:
    DATABASES = {    'default': {
            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
            'NAME': 'DATABASE-NAME',
            'USER': 'DATABASE-USER',
            'PASSWORD': 'DATABASE-PASS',
            'HOST': 'DATABASE-HOST',
            'PORT': 'DATABASE-PORT',
        }
    }
   

6. Remove proto_django from the git remote list:

    git remote rm origin