How do I use PyMock and Nose with Django models?

Question

I'm trying to do TDD with PyMock, but I keep getting error when I use Nose and execute core.py from command line:

"ERROR: Failure: ImportError (Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable DJA NGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.)"

If I remove "from cms.models import Entry" from the unit test module I created, everything works fine, but I need to mock functionality in django module cms.models.Entry that I created.

What am I doing wrong? Can this be done?

Answer 1

You do need DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE defined in order to run core.py -- why don't you just export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=whatever in your bash session before starting nose?