Silver foxes

Installing Virtual Environment

• We use a virtual python interpreter environment to manage dependencies for the back-end project. This is achieved by using virtualenvwrapper which inturn uses virtual env.

Installing and configuring virtualenvwrapper

• sudo apt install virtualenv
• pip install virtualenvwrapper
• Add the following to your ./bashrc file
  • export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3
  • export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
  • export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_VIRTUALENV=$HOME/.local/bin/virtualenv
  • source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
• Run source ~/.bashrc in your terminal.

Creating and managing virtual environment

• To create a new environment run, mkvritualenv silver_foxes, replace silver_foxes with whatever name you want for the environment.
• Once activated, run pip install -r requirements/dev.txt (for dev environment and choose accordingly).
• Any pip install that you do during your development be sure to add it to dev.txt or prod (whatever you see fit). You can pip freeze > requirements/dev.txt if there are many dependencies to be added.
• To deactivate this python environment, run deactivate in your terminal.