title: Basic Setup of NoseTests
body: <p>The documentation for NoseTests seems really straightforward, but I can't find the answer to the initial setup anywhere. I've done pip install nosetests and it went fine, but when I type "nosetests" at the root of my django project, I get the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR: Failure: ImproperlyConfigured (Requested setting DATABASES, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.)
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  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Users/aronchick/Code/ayafi/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/loader.py", line 413, in loadTestsFromName
      addr.filename, addr.module)
    File "/Users/aronchick/Code/ayafi/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/importer.py", line 47, in importFromPath
      return self.importFromDir(dir_path, fqname)
    File "/Users/aronchick/Code/ayafi/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/importer.py", line 94, in importFromDir
      mod = load_module(part_fqname, fh, filename, desc)
    File "/Users/aronchick/Code/ayafi/pages/tests.py", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.test import TestCase
    File "/Users/aronchick/Code/ayafi/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/__init__.py", line 5, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.test.client import Client, RequestFactory
    File "/Users/aronchick/Code/ayafi/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 21, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.db import close_connection
    File "/Users/aronchick/Code/ayafi/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 11, in &lt;module&gt;
      if settings.DATABASES and DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS not in settings.DATABASES:
    File "/Users/aronchick/Code/ayafi/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 53, in __getattr__
      self._setup(name)
    File "/Users/aronchick/Code/ayafi/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 46, in _setup
      % (desc, ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE))
  ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting DATABASES, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.
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  <p>Clearly it's not picking up settings across the Django app, but it's not clear why - I'm able to run my app fine locally with python manage.py server or with foreman. What did I miss?</p>