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Guide on how to have your Django web application deployed on Heroku

Just use these two guides from Heroku:

If you are migrating an existing Django app, I found these steps to be very helpful!

1. Create the Procfile

Installing PostgreSQL on Mac OSX

The easiest way I have found to install PostgreSQL on Mac OSX is by using Postgres.app.

Download Postgres.app

Postgres.app Download

Install

Move the downloaded file to ~/Applications
Double click

Guide to set up Mac OSX from a fresh reinstall of the OS

Note:

For new versions of Mac OSX (10.12+), you will most likely run into some errors. To avoid that, install XCode found here

Install Git

https://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/

git config --global user.name "[Full Name]"

Guide to Virtual Environments

A Virtual Environment is a tool to keep the dependencies required by different projects in separate places, by creating virtual Python environments for them. It solves the “Project X depends on version 1.x but, Project Y needs 4.x” dilemma, and keeps your global site-packages directory clean and manageable.

For example, you can work on a project which requires Django 1.3 while also maintaining a project which requires Django 1.0.

I highly recommend using virtualenvwrapper, it makes your life so much easier!

Set up

Install pip

	# virtual environments
	venv

	# Python files
	*.pyc
	__pycache__

	# Python Notebook dot files
	.ipynb*

	root = true

	# Unix-style newlines with a newline ending every file
	[*]
	charset = utf-8
	end_of_line = lf
	insert_final_newline = true
	trim_trailing_whitespace = true

	# Python settings

	export PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV=true

	gpip(){
	PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV="" pip "$@"
	}
	test -f /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh && source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
	if which pyenv > /dev/null ; then eval "$(pyenv init -)"; fi

	SECRET_KEY=13dfdasfaw3rarfdafjpj(&YO&D&FAFAHUH
	DEBUG=true
	ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost 0.0.0.0 127.0.0.1
	DATABASE_URL=postgres://user:password@localhost:5432/database

	var testsContext = require.context(".", true, /_test$/);
	testsContext.keys().forEach(testsContext);