You have several options in setting up your working environment. We recommend using virtualenv to separate the dependencies of your project from your system's python environment. If on Linux or Mac OS X, you can also use virtualenvwrapper to help manage multiple virtualenvs across different projects.

First, make sure you are using virtualenv (http://www.virtualenv.org). Once that's installed, create your virtualenv:

$ virtualenv --distribute django_tastypie_example

You will also need to ensure that the virtualenv has the project directory added to the path. Adding the project directory will allow django-admin.py to be able to change settings using the --settings flag.

Virtualenv with virtualenvwrapper --------------------------

In Linux and Mac OSX, you can install virtualenvwrapper (http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/), which will take care of managing your virtual environments and adding the project path to the site-directory for you:

$ mkdir django_tastypie_example
$ mkvirtualenv -a django_tastypie_example django_tastypie_example-dev
$ cd django_tastypie_example && add2virtualenv `pwd`

In Windows, or if you're not comfortable using the command line, you will need to add a .pth file to the site-packages of your virtualenv. If you have been following the book's example for the virtualenv directory (pg. 12), then you will need to add a python pathfile named _virtualenv_path_extensions.pth to the site-packages. If you have been following the book, then your virtualenv folder will be something like:

`~/.virtualenvs/django_tastypie_example/lib/python2.7/site-directory/`

In the pathfile, you will want to include the following code (from virtualenvwrapper):

import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path) /home/<youruser>/django_tastypie_example/django_tastypie_example/ import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new)

To install Django in the new virtual environment, run the following command:

$ pip install django

To clone this project, run the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/psjinx/django-tastypie-custom-user-example.git

Depending on where you are installing dependencies:

In development:

$ pip install -r requirements/local.txt

For production:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

note: We install production requirements this way because many Platforms as a Services expect a requirements.txt file in the root of projects.

• Many thanks to everyone who read my blog post[1] and suggested possible improvements.
• All of the contributers[2] to django-twoscoops-project[3] project.
• All of the contributors to this project.

1. http://psjinx.com/programming/2013/06/07/so-you-want-to-create-users-using-djangotastypie/
2. https://github.com/twoscoops/django-twoscoops-project/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
3. https://github.com/twoscoops/django-twoscoops-project