To develop, install the pip requirements into a virtualenv. You will need Docker.

virtualenv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

If you're using pylint (which you should) you'll also want to install the app's dependencies into your virtualenv. This will allow pylint to tell you if you're using a pip library wrong.

pip install -r app/requirements.txt

If you have a global pylint installed, you should remove it as it won't be able to track dependencies properly.

Then, you need to build the images. This will take a minute the first time. If requirements change, you need to do this again.

docker-compose build

If an OpenSSL error is preventing docker-compose build from working on Mac OSX, you'll need to install docker-compose via curl instead of pip:

curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.3.3/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

You may need to prepend sudo to the commands above depending on your system's permissions.

To get everything running:

docker-compose up

Since boot2docker doesn't expose containers to localhost or 127.0.0.1, you will need to go to the IP address you get from

boot2docker ip

The server should be running on port 80.