Getting Python + Mac _ GAE set up

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Steps

• Make sure you've got Xcode

• Make sure you open up the AppEngine GUI And make all the symlinks it wants you to (into /usr/local)

• 'sudo easy_install pip'

• 'sudo pip install virtualenv'

• 'sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper'

• 'mkdir ~/.virtualenvs'

• 'cd ~/.virtualenvs'

• Figure out which version of python is 2.5 - type 'which python'.

• For each of those, run the full path python i.e. /usr/bin/python and append -v to it. i.e. '/usr/bin/python -v'.

• you should see the version when it starts. You're looking for python 2.5.x. Hit Ctrl-D to exit python

• 'virtualenv --no-site-packages -p <2.5 python version: mine is /usr/local/bin/python> gae25'

• edit ~/.bashrc to include: WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs

source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

export PIP_VIRTUALENV_BASE=$WORKON_HOME

export PIP_RESPECT_VIRTUALENV=true

• 'pip install yolk'

• 'pip install simplejson'

• 'pip install mox'

• Create a new file at ~/.virtualenvs/gae25/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gae.pth, and add: /usr/local/google_appengine

/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/antlr3

/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/cacerts

/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/django

/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/fancy_urllib

/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/ipaddr

/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/webob

/usr/local/google_appengine/lib/yaml/lib

At this point, you should be able to get started:

• 'cd ~/Projects'

• If you haven't already, 'git clone [email protected]:mattrjacobs/Prdict.git'

• 'cd Prdict'

• 'git pull' (updates in case I've checked something in)

• 'rake test' - runs all unit tests

• One more bit of Google weirdness to work around to actually run the damn thing: You need to edit the dev-appserver.py that comes in the SDK. Wherever you downloaded it you need to open that file.

• Mine is at: /Users/matthewjacobs/Desktop/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py.

• So '/Users/matthewjacobs/Desktop' is the only thing that should be different for your installation.

• Open that file and make the edits suggested here : Fix Google's dev_appserver.py

• Now you should be able to do 'rake run' and get the webapp showing up at http://localhost:8080.

• Go to http://localhost:8080/dev/populate to fill up sports/teams/leagues/users