SQLAlchemy + URL Dispatch Wiki Tutorial

This tutorial introduces a SQLAlchemy and url dispatch -based Pyramid application to a developer familiar with Python. When the tutorial is finished, the developer will have created a basic Wiki application with authentication.

For cut and paste purposes, the source code for all stages of this tutorial can be browsed at https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/tree/1.3-branch/docs/tutorials/wiki2/src.

• Background
• Design
  • Overall
  • Models
  • Views
  • Security
  • Summary
• Installation
  • Preparation
  • Making a Project
  • Installing the Project in “Development Mode”
  • Running the Tests
  • Exposing Test Coverage Information
  • Initializing the Database
  • Starting the Application
  • Decisions the alchemy Scaffold Has Made For You
• Basic Layout
  • Application Configuration with __init__.py
  • View Declarations via views.py
  • Content Models with models.py
• Defining the Domain Model
  • Making Edits to models.py
  • Changing scripts/initializedb.py
  • Reinitializing the Database
  • Viewing the Application in a Browser
• Defining Views
  • Declaring Dependencies in Our setup.py File
  • Running setup.py develop
  • Changing the views.py File
  • Adding Templates
  • Adding Routes to __init__.py
  • Viewing the Application in a Browser
• Adding Authorization
  • Adding A Root Factory
  • Add an Authorization Policy and an Authentication Policy
  • Adding an authentication policy callback
  • Adding Login and Logout Views
  • Changing Existing Views
  • Adding the login.pt Template
  • Add a “Logout” link when logged in
  • Seeing Our Changes To views.py and our Templates
  • Viewing the Application in a Browser
• Adding Tests
  • Testing the Models
  • Testing the Views
  • Functional tests
  • Viewing the results of all our edits to tests.py
  • Running the Tests
• Distributing Your Application