TurboGears2 Web Applications (Batteries Included)

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Preface

• The History of the TurboGears Project
• Pre-Requisites: What You Need To Know

Part I - The Basics

• Whetting the Appetite: Make a Wiki in 20 Minutes
• virtualenv and You: A Perfect Match
• Our New Web Application : Hiring Pond

Part II - Making A Web App

• Configuring TurboGears - Where the main configuration files are, and what their values mean
• Initial Project Layout - What the developer gets from the quickstarted project
• Using SQL Alchemy - How to perform basic operations with your data model, and how to specify it
• Writing The Unit Tests - To show how to build in testing, so as to establish good habits for the rest of the book
• Alternate Authentication Mechanisms - Writing a plugin that handles authenticating in a different way than is expected by default TG2
• Using Sprox - Completing the basic application
• Using ToscaWidgets - When you need lower level tools than Sprox can provide
• AJAX - Making the web application feel more like an application, rather than a set of web pages
• Command Line Tools - Adding command line tools to perform specific behind the scenes tasks (such as cron jobs)
• Content Types and Web Services - Returning items other than HTML, providing pages to other web servers for their own consumption, rather than a browser

Part III - Deployment Methods

• Build the Installation Egg - How to package the specific app
• Build a local PyPI - How to make a local installation source to allow easy installation of the exact same app version later on a different machine
• Apache
  • mod_wsgi
  • CGI
  • mod_proxy
• Lighttpd web server
• NGINX web server
• Maintaining the application - Things to do to make sure the app stays up to date easily

Part IV - Alternatives and Extensions

• Alternate Templating Systems
  • Mako
  • Jinja2
  • Kajiki
• Storage Alternatives
  • MongoDB
  • Cassandra
• Building TurboGears extensions, complete with a small sample
• Extensive ToscaWidgets Guide

Appendices

• TurboGears2 Command Line Reference
• Multiple Domains Served by Single TG2 Application Instance
• Testing and Debugging TG2 Applications
• External Tutorials
• Contributing
  • Preparing Your Development Environment
  • Testing Your Changes
• Maintainer’s Guide
  • Preparing a Release of TurboGears

• ToDo List: Items That Are Not Yet Done
• Alphabetical Module Index
• Index