title: Running Django tests in PyCharm
body: <p>I am trying to run a simple Django test in PyCharm, but its failing with the following stack trace-</p>
  
  <pre><code>/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/bin/python /opt/pycharm-3.0.2/helpers/pycharm/django_test_manage.py test snippets.SimpleTest.test_simple /home/ramashishb/mine/learn/django-rest/django-rest-tutorial
  Testing started at 4:37 PM ...
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/opt/pycharm-3.0.2/helpers/pycharm/django_test_manage.py", line 18, in &lt;module&gt;
      import django_test_runner
    File "/opt/pycharm-3.0.2/helpers/pycharm/django_test_runner.py", line 14, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.test.testcases import TestCase
    File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/__init__.py", line 5, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.test.client import Client, RequestFactory
    File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 11, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login, logout, get_user_model
    File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py", line 6, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.middleware.csrf import rotate_token
    File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/middleware/csrf.py", line 14, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.utils.cache import patch_vary_headers
    File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/cache.py", line 26, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.core.cache import get_cache
    File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/cache/__init__.py", line 69, in &lt;module&gt;
      if DEFAULT_CACHE_ALIAS not in settings.CACHES:
    File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 54, in __getattr__
      self._setup(name)
    File "/home/ramashishb/local/pyenv/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 47, in _setup
      % (desc, ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE))
  django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting CACHES, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.
  
  Process finished with exit code 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The test runs fine on console using- <code>./manage.py run test</code>
  It looks like things are not setup before executing the tests?</p>
  
  <p>Any idea?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Ram</p>