Setup up a virtual environment using virtualenv:
virtualenv venv
and activate it
source venv/bin/activate
Install the project dependencies with pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
The easiest way to install RabbitMQ is using brew:
brew install rabbitmq
Once installed, you can run RabbitMQ using the rabbitmq-server command. This will also enable a web view at http://localhost:15672 which you can log into with the credentials guest:guest.
Once running, you will need to set up a topic exchange e.g. aker.events and a queue which binds to it (both of which can be done through the web view).
The queue connection details are in a local file called [environment]_queue.txt, e.g. development_queue.txt.
The tests can be run using the nose library.
nosetests
You need to connect to a postgres database for this to work.
The connection details are in a local file called [environment]_db.txt (e.g. development_db.txt).
(It is possible to set up your database so that the details in development_db.txt will just work.)
Load the schema.sql file into your database to set up the tables.
There is a small amendment (described in comments) that needs to be made to the sql for it to run successfully in DBVisualizer.