Added a script to ease start of development. Changed the name of the runtests folder to tools to reflect that it is no longer only for test running purposes but for development purposes.

.travis.yml

@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ install:
 before-script:
   - pep8 --exclude=migrations --ignore="E501,E255,E261,W191,E101" .
 script:
-  - python rest_framework/runtests/runtests.py
-  - python rest_framework/runtests/runcoverage.py
+  - python rest_framework/tools/tools.py
+  - python rest_framework/tools/runcoverage.py

development.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 autopep8>=0.8.5
-pep>=1.4.1
+pep8>=1.4.1
 coverage>=3.6
 django-discover-runner>=0.2.2
+tox

rest_framework/tools/preparedevenv.py

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+"""
+This script prepares all the required components in order to start developing django-rest-framework.
+Installs virtualenv to the global site packages if it does not exist.
+Installs all the necessary dependencies into a virtualenv at the specified path.
+
+usage: ./preparedevenv.py [path-to-virtual-env]
+"""
+
+import subprocess
+import os
+import sys
+
+def install(home):
+    print("Installing dependencies into virtualenv at %s" % home)
+
+    requirements_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+    os.chdir(home)
+    pip = './Scripts/pip-script.py'
+    python = './Scripts/python'
+    execfile('./Scripts/activate_this.py')
+    subprocess.call(
+        [python, pip, 'install', '-r', os.path.join(requirements_path, "../..", 'requirements.txt'), '-M'])
+    subprocess.call(
+        [python, pip, 'install', '-r', os.path.join(requirements_path, "../..", 'optionals.txt'), '-M'])
+    subprocess.call(
+        [python, pip, 'install', '-r', os.path.join(requirements_path, "../..", 'development.txt'), '-M'])
+
+
+def after_install(home):
+    install(home)
+
+try:
+    import pip
+except ImportError:
+    print("pip in not installed. Aborting...")
+    exit(1)
+
+def install_virtualenv():
+    subprocess.call(['pip', 'install', 'virtualenv'])
+
+
+def install_tox():
+    subprocess.call(['pip', 'install', 'tox'])
+
+try:
+    import virtualenv
+except ImportError:
+    try:
+        install_virtualenv()
+    except:
+        print("virtualenv installation has failed. Aborting...")
+        exit(1)
+
+install_tox()
+
+from virtualenv import create_environment
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+    print("usage: ./preparedevenv.py [path-to-virtual-env]")
+    exit(1)
+
+path = sys.argv[1]
+if not os.path.isdir(path):
+    print("Creating virtualenv at %s" % path)
+    create_environment(path, use_distribute=True, clear=True)
+else:
+    print("virtualenv at path %s seems to exist. Attempting to install dependencies." % path)
+
+after_install(path)

rest_framework/tools/runtests.py

@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ os.environ.setdefault(
 
 from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
 
-sys.argv.append('test')
+sys.argv.append(1, 'test')
 execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)