Question

I am trying to run Jumo open source platform ( https://github.com/jumoconnect/openjumo) on my local machine (Windows 7). I have Python and Django installed and it works – I can create new project without problems, but I am not sure how to set existing project and make it work.

I am not experienced with Python/Django, so first I need to know whether it is hard task or not. I guess it’s much complicated then installing WordPress or Joomla, but does that require a lot of work in order to set it up?

Can someone write some kind of guide if it is not too complicated? Or if there is some tutorial that explains how to do that, that would be great.

Just to be clear, I am not trying to learn something in one day, just want to see if this first step in using this platform is too hard, and if it’s not, I’d continue learning, because this is exactly what I need for one project.

I use Python 2.7 and Django 1.3.1

Thanks

Answer 1

This project has a lot of external requirements which are not listed anywhere and unless you are comfortable and familiar with django, I wouldn’t recommend installing it. Here are some but not all of the requirements that you’ll need running:

1. Celery and django-celery
2. RabbitMQ (a broker for Celery), or another broker but then you’ll have to edit settings.py again.
3. memcached (this is optional, as you can use django’s own session middleware for development), but if you simply download the code and try to run it, you’ll run into an error since the default settings.py has the default middleware commented out.
4. grappelli
5. django-jenkins (not required, but again, unless you edit the default settings.py, you’ll get errors).
6. django-tastypie
7. django-debug-toolbar
8. Data science toolkit server