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		taude on Sept 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Want to learn Django? Start here. Some advice that saved me hours: use Vagrant to manage a linux-based VM. Share the Django code directory with your Host OS. You're going to eventually deploy to Linux anyway. (I had a LOT of issues trying to get Postgresql to install on OS X via Homebrew, etc, and it still wasn't a proper environment). Once I went with Vagrant and an Ubuntu VM, things smoothed out.

rdrake on Sept 17, 2012 [–]

I second using Vagrant boxes, but there is an easy solution for running Postgres on OS X now:

http://postgresapp.com/

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