Environment setup on Windows (assumes you already have python, and git installed):

1. Install mongodb using instructions here: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/
2. Setup pip: (taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4750806/how-to-install-pip-on-windows)

• Download the last pip version from here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip#downloads
• Uncompress it
• Download the last easy installer for Windows: (download the .exe at the bottom of http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools ). Install it.
• go to the uncompressed pip directory and: python setup.py install
• Add your python c:\Python2x\Scripts to the path
• I recommend you install svn and mercurial to allow easier use of pip

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Python libraries to install: Run the following command from the root folder

pip install -r reqs.txt

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Eclipse tips:

• enable pylint and pep8 for code style help
• add "--generated-members=objects" to the list of arguments to pass to pylint (mongoengine generates these fields)
• I remcommend looking through the pydev editor options and choosing some things that make sense
• In the general text editor options, I recommend showing the print margins (General > Editors > Text Editors)