Openshift V2 and Flask with Virtualenv on OS X

Create a flask app for Openshift with a matching local python virtualenv to perform local testing.

In this case we’ll use Python 2.7 on Mac OS X 10.9.

Overview of the steps

1. Install Homebrew
2. Install Python Development Environment on Mac OS X
3. Install rhc client tools.
4. Install and Configure a Python Flask for OpenShift

Installing Homebrew

Ready the system for Homebrew

• First unhide ~/Library folder.

  1. Open Finder
  2. Press shift-command-H
  3. Press command-J
  4. Check Show Library Folder

• Now Setup shell environment Some of these settings are only relevant to later steps, but go ahead and put them all in now.

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