Pylons environment setup outside of paste. Useful for background tasks (like using turnip)

gistfile1.py

def setup(config_file='development.ini'):
    from socialgrapple.config.environment import load_environment
    from paste.deploy import loadapp
    from routes.util import URLGenerator
    from webtest import TestApp
    from beaker.session import SessionObject

    environ = {'HTTP_HOST': 'socialgrapple.com'}
    wsgiapp = loadapp('config:' + config_file, relative_to='.')
    config = load_environment(wsgiapp.config['global_conf'], wsgiapp.config['app_conf'])
    app = TestApp(wsgiapp, environ)
    resp = app.get('/')

    # Setup StackedProxyObjects
    import pylons
    pylons.url._push_object(URLGenerator(config['routes.map'], environ))
    pylons.app_globals._push_object(config['pylons.app_globals'])
    pylons.tmpl_context._push_object(pylons.util.ContextObj())
    pylons.translator._push_object(pylons.i18n.translation._get_translator(pylons.config.get('lang')))
    pylons.session._push_object(SessionObject(environ))
    pylons.request._push_object(resp.request)
    pylons.response._push_object(resp)
    pylons.config.update(config)

    # Setup logging
    import logging.config
    logging.config.fileConfig(config_file)

    return app