Boston Python Workshop/Friday handout/OS X 10.6 or 10.5

Install git

It's an insult in British English, but git is also an awesome version control tool. Here's how you install it:

Go to this page on google code and download the latest file ending in "-x86_64-leopard.dmg" (1.7.2.3 as of this writing). If you're at a workshop and you need this file, please ask a volunteer - we might have it on a thumb drive, and that'd save you a bunch of time downloading. Once it's downloaded, double click to open. You'll see something like this:

File:Git-screenshot.png

Double-click the .pkg file to install. Once that's done, close all your open Terminal windows, and open a new one. Cut and paste the following into the new Terminal window:

    git --version

It should respond with something like "git version 1.7.2.3".

Tell git who you are

• Open up a new Terminal window.
• git config --global user.name "Your Actual Name"
• git config --global user.email "Your Actual Email" (Must be same email you use to sign up for Heroku [see below]. Also must be accessible from the workshop.)

If this doesn't produce an error, congratulations! You have a successful install of git and you can move on to the next section.

Django

• Open a Terminal and type:

cd /tmp/
curl -L  http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.2.5/tarball/  -o Django-1.2.5.tar.gz
tar zxvf Django-1.2.5.tar.gz
cd Django-1.2.5
sudo python setup.py install

Make sure Django is working

• Open a Python prompt, and type this in:

import django

If you get an error, get help! Otherwise, you're done.

Create an ssh public key

You'll need one of these to push your work to Github.

• Open up a new Terminal window.
• ssh-keygen -C "Your Actual Email" -t rsa (email should match git config setting)
• Hit enter to accept default location for ssh key.
• Hit enter to accept blank passphrase (if computer is shared with other people, as in a work laptop, you should create a passphrase). Hit enter again to accept blank passphrase (or enter passphrase again).
• Output of ssh-keygen command
• Your brand-new public key is now stored at ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.