May 31st, 2009Distracted by playing

I should be working on a large Django project right now (not the Dash this year, unfortunately) but so far I haven’t been today. Well, I take that back. I’ve been working on it but just in the planning arena, no code has been written.

What I have been doing, though, is getting things ready. I’m thinking the project might have a good use for CouchDB, so that means installing a bunch of other things (Erlang, which has its own dependencies, SpiderMonkey, and others). Thankfully the Internet provides all.

So, for my future use and yours, these two guides are awesome:

• Compiling GD on Mac OS X which you need before you can install Erlang
• Installing CouchDB on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard which will give you Erlang and the rest.

The launchctl part of the last tutorial doesn’t seem to be working for me, but that could just be some weirdness with my system. Running sudo couchdb & works and I’d rather only launch CouchDB when I’m actually using it.

Now to get to coding!

tagged: code, couchdb, django, erlang, mac os x, python, software