Adding a quick howto on setting up virtualenvs

Change-Id: I0f49a3e8cd47a9b8303261ccffa0c3e9f260a1fc

docs/source/getting_started/index.rst

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    setting_up_env
    install
    using
+   pyenv/index
+   virtualenv/index

docs/source/getting_started/pyenv/index.rst

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+==========================
+Working with pyenv
+==========================
+
+.. _installing_pyenv:
+
+Installing pyenv
+=================
+
+The official installation guide is available here `pyenv on github <https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv#installation>`_. The official guide includes instructions for Mac OS X as well.
+
+Installing pyenv on Ubuntu:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    sudo apt-get install git python-pip make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev
+    sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper
+
+    git clone https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv
+    git clone https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper.git ~/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper
+
+    echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc
+    echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
+    echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
+    echo 'pyenv virtualenvwrapper' >> ~/.bashrc
+
+    exec $SHELL
+
+Installing a fresh version of Python
+=====================================
+
+Now that pyenv and the virtualenvwrapper plugin is installed. We need to download and install a version of python. In this case, we're going to install Python 2.7.6.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    # Install
+    pyenv install 2.7.6
+
+    # Set 2.7.6 as your shell default
+    pyenv global 2.7.6

docs/source/getting_started/setting_up_env.rst

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-====================
-Setup Environment
-====================
+=====================================
+Setting up a Development Environment
+=====================================
+
+OpenCAFE strongly recommends the use of Python virtual environments for development.
+
+While not required, if you wish to manage your Python versions as well as virtual environments, we suggest the use of pyenv. Instructions on installing pyenv can be found here: :ref:`installing_pyenv`
+
+
+Building your virtual environment
+==================================
+If you wish to run OpenCAFE in a virtual environment, then you will need to `install virtualenv <http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/virtualenv.html#installation>`_
+
+For easier management of your virtual environments, it is recommended that you install virtualenvwrapper as well.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper
+
+
+Creating virtualenv and installing OpenCAFE
+---------------------------------------------
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    # Requires virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper to be installed
+    mkvirtualenv OpenCAFE
+
+    # Clone OpenCAFE Repo
+    git clone git@github.com:stackforge/opencafe.git
+
+    # Change directory into the newly cloned repository
+    cd opencafe
+
+    # Install OpenCAFE into your virtualenv
+    pip install . --upgrade
+
+
+Information regarding the operation of your virtual environment can be found here: :ref:`working_with_virtualenv`

docs/source/getting_started/virtualenv/index.rst

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+.. _working_with_virtualenv:
+
+===================================
+Working with virtual environments
+===================================
+For a complete guide on using virtualenv, please refer to the `virtualenv <http://www.virtualenv.org/>`_ and `virtualenvwrapper <http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org>`_ documentation
+
+
+Using virtualenvwrapper
+=========================
+There are four primary commands that are used to manage your virtual environments with virtualenvwrapper.
+
+Create
+-------
+When you create a virtualenv with virtualenvwrapper it creates a virtual environment within the $HOME/.virtualenvs folder.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    # Allows for you to new create a virtual environment based
+    # on your current python version(s)
+    mkvirtualenv CloudCAFE
+
+
+Activate Environment
+----------------------
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    # Activates a virtual environment within your current shell.
+    workon CloudCAFE
+
+
+Deactivate Environment
+----------------------
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    # Deactivates a virtual environment within your current shell.
+    deactivate
+
+
+Remove Environment
+----------------------
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    # Deletes a virtual environment from your system.
+    rmvirtualenv CloudCAFE