Before, you install the application, make sure your system has

memcached
libmemcached
libevent
redis
wget
geos

Do this sequence of commands, clearly, python, virtualenv, git, and pip must be installed (Google for instructions) (Linux environment reccomended):

virtualenv --distribute new_folder
cd new_folder/
source bin/activate

The last command activate the virtualenv

Then you want to clone the project in the new virtualenv folder:

git clone git@github.com:vperez23/FMG2013.git@dev fetchmyguest

Install the requirements:

cd fetchmyguest
pip install -r requirements.txt

create a local database in postgresql named fetch

and generate the tables if you don't replicate the existing db

python ./manage.py syncdb --all
python ./manage.py migrate --fake

then you can run your local django server

python ./manage.py supervisor

This app requires the H-store extension installed on PostgreSQL

CREATE EXTENSION hstore;

From the database sql shell.

The configuration by default points to the production settings, if local develeopment settings are requred you should create a local settings file, in */settings/local.py and configure a environment variable to point to this settings, typically in a virtualenv:

...
_OLD_VIRTUAL_PATH="$PATH"
PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
export PATH
export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='fetchmyguest.settings.local'

# unset PYTHONHOME if set.
...

This a local.py example:

from dev import *

RAVEN_CONFIG = {
                'dsn': '',
}
BIND = "0.0.0.0:8080"

Important is to import dev prod or base, then everithing can overridden.