Noodles is an app containing all sorts of misc. bits of code that I see to use across projects.

There aren't really any connecting dots or common design patterns. It's just stuff I use.

The pieces that noodles offers are explained in the Documentation

First, install with pip (for the time being, noodles is only available directly from github):

pip install git+https://github.com/Brant/django-noodles.git@master

Then, add noodles to your installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'noodles',
)

To run the the test suite:

virtualenv env
. ./env/bin/activate
pip install -r noodles_tests/requirements.txt
./noodles_tests/runtests.py