Re: initializing virtualenvwrapper on Mac (10.6.8) for Django

[Lachlan Musicman]

WORKON_HOME is a shell variable, which is why it's then called/accessed using the $ - $WORKON_HOME

Export tells the shell to put it in it's local vars for the session, and to set the var to ~/Export

the mkdir -p will create the directory ~/Envs (or whatever you chose to set WORKON_HOME to). It will also create all parent dirs (-p)

source tells the shell to start using the shell script following it as a resource (which can contain vars and functions, eg mkvirtualev)

To make this persistent  you should put the first and third lines into your shell rc file, usually .bashrc (also, .kshrc, .bash/bashrc, .profile, etc). You can put them as is, at the bottom. 

Cheers

L.

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Luisa Beck <emmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

I want to use Django and create virtual environments. I don't quite understand the initializing steps documentation on the virtualenvwrapper website. I've installed virtualenvwrapper in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages. I've already installed XCode, Homebrew and Posgres as well.

The documentation tells me to:

$ export WORKON_HOME=~/Envs

$ mkdir -p $WORKON_HOME

$ source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

$ mkvirtualenv env1`

I'm especially confused about the first line. Is it telling me that I need to create a project folder named 'WORKON_HOME' and export it into another folder called 'Envs'? (I've searched for both folders on my mac but didn't find them). And then in the second line I make another directory 'WORKON_HOME'? If you have suggestions or links to better explanations/tutorials, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

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[Lachlan Musicman]

I should add that you can see what any shell VAR is set to by using 

echo $VAR

or see what they are all set to by using 

printenv

And that by shell I'm generically referring to all shells: sh, csh, ksh, bash, dash, ash. 

Cheers

L.

[Brent]

This guide worked perfectly for me when setting up my dev environment on Mountain Lion. (Virtualenv, Virtualwrapper, Homebrew, Xcode, Postgres, Python, Django, etc.)

https://gist.github.com/1852087

[Fred Stluka]

Nice!  Thanks!

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