Move to your development folder (eg: $HOME/workspace)
cd $HOME/workspace
create and activate a virtualenv
pyvenv-3.5 venv source venv/bin/activate
upgrade pip and install cookiecutter
pip3 install --upgrade pip pip install cookiecutter
start new django project via manax
cookiecutter https://github.com/manazag/manax
You’ll be prompted for some values. Provide them, then a Django project will be created for you. Answer the prompts with your own desired options. For example:
Cloning into 'manax'... remote: Counting objects: 550, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (310/310), done. remote: Total 550 (delta 283), reused 479 (delta 222) Receiving objects: 100% (550/550), 127.66 KiB | 58 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (283/283), done. project_name [project_name]: Reddit Clone project_slug [Reddit_Clone]: reddit author_name [Your Name]: Daniel Roy Greenfeld email [Your email]: pydanny@gmail.com description [A short description of the project.]: A reddit clone. domain_name [example.com]: myreddit.com version [0.1.0]: 0.0.1 timezone [UTC]: America/Los_Angeles now [2016/03/01]: 2016/03/05 year [2016]: Select db_backend: 1 - sqlite 2 - postgresql Choose from 1, 2 [1]: use_whitenoise [y]: n use_celery [n]: y use_mailhog [n]: n use_sentry [n]: y use_newrelic [n]: y use_opbeat [n]: y use_pycharm [n]: y windows [n]: n use_python2 [n]: n use_docker [y]: y use_heroku [n]: n use_grunt [n]: y use_angular [n]: n Select open_source_license: 1 - MIT 2 - BSD 3 - Not open source Choose from 1, 2, 3 [1]: 1
move into [project_slug] folder:
cd [project_slug]
if this is first time you use manax, run this script
sudo ./utility/install_os_dependencies.sh install
if you want a virtualenv inside [project_slug] folder
deactivate pyvenv-3.5 venv source venv/bin/activate
install requirements
pip install -r requirements/local.txt
now, only a database is between you and your project running
export DATABASE_URL="sqlite:///$PWD/db.sqlite" python manage.py migrate python manage.py runserver