Below you will find basic setup and deployment instructions for the project project. To begin you should have the following applications installed on your local development system:

• Python >= 2.6 (2.7 recommended)
• pip >= 1.1
• virtualenv >= 1.7
• virtualenvwrapper >= 3.0
• Postgres >= 8.4 (9.1 recommended)
• git >= 1.7

The deployment uses SSH with agent forwarding so you'll need to enable agent forwarding if it is not already by adding ForwardAgent yes to your SSH config.

To setup your local environment you should create a virtualenv and install the necessary requirements:

mkvirtualenv --distribute rapidsms-multiserver
$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/pip install -r $PWD/requirements/dev.txt

Then create a local settings file and set your DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to use it:

cp project/settings/local.example.py project/settings/local.py
echo "export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=project.settings.local" >> $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/postactivate
echo "unset DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE" >> $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/postdeactivate

Exit the virtualenv and reactivate it to activate the settings just changed:

deactivate
workon rapidsms-multiserver

Create the Postgres database and run the initial syncdb/migrate:

createdb -E UTF-8 project
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py migrate

You should now be able to run the development server:

python manage.py runserver

You can deploy changes to a particular environment with the deploy command. This takes an optional branch name to deploy. If the branch is not given, it will use the default branch defined for this environment in env.branch:

fab staging deploy
fab staging deploy:new-feature

New requirements or South migrations are detected by parsing the VCS changes and will be installed/run automatically.