# Getting Started with Moto — Moto 0.4.10 documentation

# Getting Started with Moto

## Installing Moto

You can use `pip` to install the latest released version of `moto`:

    pip install moto

If you want to install `moto` from source:

    git clone git://github.com/spulec/moto.git
    cd moto
    python setup.py install

## Moto usage

For example we have the following code we want to test:

    import boto
    from boto.s3.key import Key

    class MyModel(object):
        def __init__(self, name, value):
            self.name = name
            self.value = value

        def save(self):
            conn = boto.connect_s3()
            bucket = conn.get_bucket('mybucket')
            k = Key(bucket)
            k.key = self.name
            k.set_contents_from_string(self.value)

There are several method to do this, just keep in mind Moto creates a full blank environment.

### Decorator

With a decorator wrapping all the calls to S3 are automatically mocked out.

    import boto
    from moto import mock_s3
    from mymodule import MyModel

    @mock_s3
    def test_my_model_save():
        conn = boto.connect_s3()
        # We need to create the bucket since this is all in Moto's 'virtual' AWS account
        conn.create_bucket('mybucket')

        model_instance = MyModel('steve', 'is awesome')
        model_instance.save()

        assert conn.get_bucket('mybucket').get_key('steve').get_contents_as_string() == 'is awesome'

### Context manager

Same as decorator, every call inside `with` statement are mocked out.

    def test_my_model_save():
        with mock_s3():
            conn = boto.connect_s3()
            conn.create_bucket('mybucket')

            model_instance = MyModel('steve', 'is awesome')
            model_instance.save()

            assert conn.get_bucket('mybucket').get_key('steve').get_contents_as_string() == 'is awesome'

### Raw

You can also start and stop manually the mocking.

    def test_my_model_save():
        mock = mock_s3()
        mock.start()

        conn = boto.connect_s3()
        conn.create_bucket('mybucket')

        model_instance = MyModel('steve', 'is awesome')
        model_instance.save()

        assert conn.get_bucket('mybucket').get_key('steve').get_contents_as_string() == 'is awesome'

        mock.stop()

### Stand-alone server mode

Moto comes with a stand-alone server allowing you to mock out an AWS HTTP endpoint. It is very useful to test even if you don’t use Python.

    $ moto_server ec2 -p3000
     * Running on http://127.0.0.1:3000/

This method isn’t encouraged if you’re using `boto`, best is to use decorator method.