Re: [web2py] Re: Nginx + uwsgi file download problem

2012-01-31 Thread Thomas Bellembois
Le 31/01/2012 07:38, nick name a écrit : Almost surely the same problem discussed in this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/1_b63bhBeQs/sYFbXNJL8D4J It looks like the problem is with IE8 in this thread ? Tried to set the content-lenght header but I miss something: response.hea

Re: [web2py] Re: Nginx + uwsgi file download problem

2012-01-31 Thread nick name
No, the thread started with Ie8 being suspects, but at least from my experiments it is a problem in Rocket which can be triggered with any browser or even without a browser (e.g. wget/curl instead of a browser) See e.g. https://github.com/explorigin/Rocket/issues/1#issuecomment-3734231 The reas

Re: [web2py] Re: Nginx + uwsgi file download problem

2012-01-31 Thread Thomas Bellembois
Le 31/01/2012 09:18, nick name a écrit : No, the thread started with Ie8 being suspects, but at least from my experiments it is a problem in Rocket which can be triggered with any browser or even without a browser (e.g. wget/curl instead of a browser) See e.g. https://github.com/explorigin/Ro

Re: [web2py] Re: Nginx + uwsgi file download problem

2012-01-31 Thread pbreit
If its a big file, need to adjust: client_max_body_size 100M;

Re: CTRL-C webpy hangs (was: Re: [web2py] help with js issue)

2012-01-31 Thread Ricardo Pedroso
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > Specifically it waits for the socket timeout of 60 seconds here: > > rocket.py line 1063: >        # Wait until they pull the > trigger >        for t in self.threads: >            if t.isAlive(): >                t.join() > > I feel it i

[web2py] auth registration redirect

2012-01-31 Thread Web2Py Freak
Dear All, How can redirect anyone who register at my website to the profile page

[web2py] Cannont Initial Password Field in Custom Form

2012-01-31 Thread Aris Green
In have been trying to initialize a password field in a custom form using SQLFORM.factory, although I cannot initialize password type fields using form.vars['passfield'] = 'somevalue'. I am not using the registration form but instead am using a custom form that I want control over. Setting the

[web2py] Newbie Tutorial Confusion

2012-01-31 Thread llanitedave
I just downloaded web2py, and I'm going through the html book for the first time. I'm just getting to the point where I think I can understand the web2py approach, and I'm starting to get enthused. I've gotten as far as the Postback section, and I'm running into problems. The code does not se

[web2py] Calling Controller Function from javascript

2012-01-31 Thread Sanjeet Kumar
How to call the Controller function from javascript

Re: [web2py] Calling Controller Function from javascript

2012-01-31 Thread Bruno Rocha
... ajax('url/to/the/controller/function', [], 'target_element_for_the_return'); ... the ajax function is included in web2py_ajax.js, the second argument is a list/array ['input'] to be used if you want to send form input values to the server, you can leave it null with an empty list []. The la

[web2py] Record Versioning

2012-01-31 Thread Johann Spies
The book describe record versioning in the Forms section (SQLFORM and Crud). How can I get the same when updating/deleting records through queries that do not use forms? Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you. (Psalm 63:3)

Re: [web2py] Record Versioning

2012-01-31 Thread Bruno Rocha
something like this http://www.web2pyslices.com/slices/take_slice/35 On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Johann Spies wrote: > The book describe record versioning in the Forms section (SQLFORM and > Crud). > > How can I get the same when updating/deleting records through queries that > do not use f

[web2py] Re: help with js issue

2012-01-31 Thread Cliff
I have seen the stopping problem on 1.99.4. Running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Gnome. No Tk library on the machine, so I just use 'python web2py.py' and take the defaults. Ctrl-C won't stop it and neither will 'Kill -SIGTERM ' The problem occurs after using the application. On Jan 30, 9:37 am, Ross

[web2py] CSS on custom form widget.

2012-01-31 Thread David
I have {{=form.custom.widget.name_on_card }} which generates id="no_table_name_on_card" class="string"> How do I add an additional class to the rendered output? ie: big id="no_table_name_on_card" class="string big"> Thanks.

Re: [web2py] auth registration redirect

2012-01-31 Thread David
auth.settings.login_next = URL('dashboard',args=['profile']) auth.settings.register_next = URL('dashboard',args=['profile']) auth.settings.profile_next = URL('dashboard',args=['profile']) Its in the docs. For more info. On 1/31/12 5:37 AM, Web2Py Freak wrote: Dear All, How can redirect anyone

[web2py] Re: auth registration redirect

2012-01-31 Thread Web2Py Freak
i added it to the db.py and its not working and i used this one from the book and it didnt work two : auth.settings.register_next = URL('user', args='profile')

[web2py] Re: CSS on custom form widget.

2012-01-31 Thread Anthony
form.custom.widget.name_on_card['_class'] += ' my-class' or form.element(_name='name_on_card')['_class'] += ' my-class' Anthony On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:46:44 AM UTC-5, David J wrote: > > I have > > {{=form.custom.widget.name_on_card }} > > which generates > > id="no_table_name_on_card"

[web2py] Re: Newbie Tutorial Confusion

2012-01-31 Thread Anthony
Note the following line: if request.vars.visitor_name: That means it will only store the value in the session and do the redirect if "visitor_name" is in request.vars. If you're not submitting a visitor name, then that variable will not be in request.vars, and the conditional branch in the co

[web2py] allow reference field to be empty?

2012-01-31 Thread Rick Ree
I've run into a basic problem that I can't seem to figure out: db.define_table('A', Field('name'), format='%(name)s') db.define_table( 'B', Field('number'), Field('name', db.A, requires=IS_EMPTY_OR(IS_IN_DB(db.A,'A.id','%(name)s'))) ) All I want to do is allow db.B.name

[web2py] Re: Chunked downloads and corrupt files with Internet Explorer 8 (IE8)

2012-01-31 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
This is very valuable. In trunk socket timeout is 60 and this resulted in another problem. Ctrl-C waits for 60 seconds before joining the worker processes. Perhaps we should increate socket-timeout, catch Ctrl+C and then kill the process instead of joining the workers. On Jan 31, 12:16 am, nick n

Re: CTRL-C webpy hangs (was: Re: [web2py] help with js issue)

2012-01-31 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
I agree. In particular considering this: https://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/d7f6faddb841790b/3ef04bd25c5b81b1#3ef04bd25c5b81b1 On Jan 31, 4:00 am, Ricardo Pedroso wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Massimo Di Pierro > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > Specifically it

[web2py] Re: allow reference field to be empty?

2012-01-31 Thread Anthony
Not sure if this is the problem, but it should be: IS_IN_DB(db, ...) not IS_IN_DB(db.A, ...) Anthony On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:11:48 AM UTC-5, Rick Ree wrote: > > I've run into a basic problem that I can't seem to figure out: > > db.define_table('A', Field('name'), format='%(name)s') >

Re: [web2py] Re: CSS on custom form widget.

2012-01-31 Thread David
Thanks. On 1/31/12 8:42 AM, Anthony wrote: form.custom.widget.name_on_card['_class'] += ' my-class' or form.element(_name='name_on_card')['_class'] += ' my-class' Anthony On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:46:44 AM UTC-5, David J wrote: I have {{=form.custom.widget.name_on_card }}

[web2py] Re: Newbie Tutorial Confusion

2012-01-31 Thread Benjamin
Hi, I did the tutorial of the pdf last week (newest pdf of december) and there is a missing step exactly at this spot of the PDF. (or actually a "not so clear change which needs to be made to run the tutorial without any issue"). I didn't know of the google groups at that time so I didn't post the

[web2py] Re: Newbie Tutorial Confusion

2012-01-31 Thread Benjamin
Hello again, I'm pretty sure the first should be like this : ** def first(): if request.vars.visitor_name: session.visitor_name = request.vars.visitor_name redirect(URL('second')) return dict(form=form) ** NOTICE THE return dict(form=form), I think it'

[web2py] Re: allow reference field to be empty?

2012-01-31 Thread Rick Ree
Ah, stupid me. Thanks. On Jan 31, 8:42 am, Anthony wrote: > Not sure if this is the problem, but it should be: > > IS_IN_DB(db, ...) > > not > > IS_IN_DB(db.A, ...) > > Anthony > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:11:48 AM UTC-5, Rick Ree wrote: > > > I've run into a basic problem that

[web2py] Scaling Web2py on GAE

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Bolgert
Hi all, For my current project I am making an interactive survey application for a environment research project. Its currently hosted on GAE. My problem is my Datastore read operations are through the roof. A few users can max the quota in about an hour. Ive tried switching DAL adapters from ga

[web2py] Help with auth extra fields

2012-01-31 Thread Jarvert
Hi, I am new to web2py and have been enjoying it immensely. I have been trying to add extra fields to the db.auth_user. In particular, I am trying to associate additional profile details like a "avatar" and other stats to a user...postal code..and so on. I have tried in the db.py: auth=Auth(db)

[web2py] Re: Newbie Tutorial Confusion

2012-01-31 Thread Anthony
> > I'm pretty sure the first should be like this : > > > > ** > > def first(): > if request.vars.visitor_name: > session.visitor_name = request.vars.visitor_name > redirect(URL('second')) > return dict(form=form) > > ** > > NOTICE THE return dict(fo

[web2py] Re: Scaling Web2py on GAE

2012-01-31 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
You cannot just swith from the datastore to gae:sql. They are different databases. To use the latter you need to setup an instance for it. Google has documentation about it. Anyway, that may solve your problem or make it worse. First of all you need to identify why you have to many read operations

[web2py] Re: Help with auth extra fields

2012-01-31 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
What if you just do: auth=Auth(db) auth.settings.extra_fields['auth_user']= [Field('Skype')] auth.define_tables() On Jan 31, 9:55 am, Jarvert wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to web2py and have been enjoying it immensely. > > I have been trying to add extra fields to the db.auth_user. In > particular,

[web2py] Re: Newbie Tutorial Confusion

2012-01-31 Thread Benjamin
Oups you're right. Now I remember what I didn't understand at this point, and probably what the OP was expecting. The book says : " Note that if the "second" action is ever called before a visitor name is set, it will display "Hello anonymous" because session.visitor_name returns None. " What t

[web2py] Re: Scaling Web2py on GAE

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Bolgert
Here is my log from the Google App Engine local dev server. I don't understand where all these "1"s are being printed from and what they mean. Some of these pages are just static and are not making any Datastore calls in the controller. Any insight would be helpful. Thank you. 2012-01-31 18:08:29,

[web2py] Re: Newbie Tutorial Confusion

2012-01-31 Thread llanitedave
You hit the nail on the head. So I'm really just misunderstanding the tutorial. And of course, looking at the code now it makes sense, because it only redirects to the second page if there is actually a value in "visitor_name". Now I get it. Thanks, folks. It's a self-facepalm. But there will

[web2py] [OT] e-mail delivery strategies

2012-01-31 Thread Chris May
This is off-topic, but since a fair number of web2py users send e-mail from their applications, I thought this post from 37Signals might prove helpful to some. There were nearly 16 million e-mails sent from 37Signals' eight web applications in the last seven days. About 99.3% of them were accep

[web2py] Re: Scaling Web2py on GAE

2012-01-31 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
I suspect you have tables which use represent to look up the representation of each record. for example: db.define_table('item', Field('name'), Field('owner','reference auth_user')) {{=SQLFORM.grid(db.item)}} The grid needs to represent each owner. It is a user to will look up the repre

[web2py] Minify (compress) response HTML

2012-01-31 Thread Kernc
Hi, Looking to this list for guidance... The web2py issue #369 (http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail? id=369) discusses a possible method of minifying response output HTML (compressing it as in removing all extraneous whitespace). The issue was closed with WontFix because "minify feature

[web2py] Re: Minify (compress) response HTML

2012-01-31 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
I apologize. My answers were not always informative not correct. I understood the issue was about minification of css and js which is included. As far as the minification of html is concerned. I do not think it belongs to response.render because there is nothing html specific in there. If you wan

[web2py] updating more than one record.

2012-01-31 Thread Ashraf Mansour
Hi all, I am looking for an example that updates many records in a table. ( similar to sql update) It seems that crud.update is handling one record. I thought about looping (for) and/or executesql. An example will be perfect. Regards, Ashraf

[web2py] Background process scheduler and GAE

2012-01-31 Thread Douglas Ross
Hi, I know that scheduler is only 6 months old, and it is fantastic, as is web2py. I have not had this much fun and ease in programming in years. I do have a questions about whether anyone has implemented it in web2py on GAE. How do you start the worker threads in web2py in GAE. Can you do it in

[web2py] Re: Chunked downloads and corrupt files with Internet Explorer 8 (IE8)

2012-01-31 Thread nick name
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:37:54 AM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > In trunk socket timeout is 60 and this resulted in another problem. > Ctrl-C waits for 60 seconds before joining the worker processes. > Perhaps we should increate socket-timeout, catch Ctrl+C and then kill > the process

[web2py] Re: Minify (compress) response HTML

2012-01-31 Thread Anthony
Are you just trying to decrease the network payload? If so, maybe just set the server to gzip the content. Once gzipped, minifying will probably only provide modest additional benefit, and may not be worth the extra processing. Anthony On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:23:09 PM UTC-5, Kernc wrote

[web2py] Parse HTML from the database?

2012-01-31 Thread HittingSmoke
Sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm working on a very basic blog and I'd run into a hurdle which I thought would be very trivial. I've skimmed the book looking for an answer but I can't seem to find one. Google searching turns up nothing but dozens of unrelated results. How do I get web2py to

[web2py] Re: Minify (compress) response HTML

2012-01-31 Thread Anthony
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:40:00 PM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > from gluon.contrib.htmlminify import minify > retrun minify(response.render(...)) > > Yet I am not sure this will provide any improvement over gzip http > responses. In fact the gzipping would be performed by the web ser

[web2py] Re: Parse HTML from the database?

2012-01-31 Thread Anthony
Content inserted in views is automatically escaped. To avoid that, use XML(): http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/5#XML. Note, this can be very dangerous if you're allowing users to enter arbitrary HTML -- in that case, you should at least sanitize the content via XML(..., sanitize=True)

Re: [web2py] Parse HTML from the database?

2012-01-31 Thread Bruno Rocha
{{=XML(posts.body)}} On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:46 PM, HittingSmoke wrote: > Sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm working on a very basic blog and I'd > run into a hurdle which I thought would be very trivial. I've skimmed the > book looking for an answer but I can't seem to find one. Google sear

Re: [web2py] updating more than one record.

2012-01-31 Thread Bruno Rocha
lets say you have a lot of records with somefield == "anything" db(db.mytable.somefield == "anything").update(field="something") On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Ashraf Mansour wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for an example that updates many records in a table. > ( similar to sql update) >

[web2py] Re: updating more than one record.

2012-01-31 Thread Ashraf Mansour
Thank you for the immediate reply. my problem is how and where to write the statement in controller and views ? Regards, Ashraf

[web2py] Re: Nesting HTML tables

2012-01-31 Thread Cliff
Try this: t = TABLE( (1,2,3), (4,5,6), # trailing comma # a blessing for sloppy coders ) Reasoning that nesting is allowed, we come to this: t = TABLE( (1,2,3), (4,5,6), (TABLE( ('one', 'two', 'three'), ('four', 'five', 'six

[web2py] Re: Chunked downloads and corrupt files with Internet Explorer 8 (IE8)

2012-01-31 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
I agree with the fact that there are two timeouts but the one I am talking about is SOCKET_TIMEOUT. It is set in --socket-timeout in widget.py and passed to rocket in line 777 of main.py rocket.SOCKET_TIMEOUT = socket_timeout which does change the constant value SOCKET_TIMEOUT=1 to 60. I am pret

[web2py] Ticket Issued: Unrecoverable

2012-01-31 Thread Likit
I have seen several posts about this problem. I just had the problem and solved it. However, none of the several posts I read had the answer that applied in my case. I did not read ALL of the posts mentioning this problem so some of them may have had an applicable answer. If you are a linux noo

Re: [web2py] Re: updating more than one record.

2012-01-31 Thread Bruno Rocha
in controller default.py *def update(): > form = SQLFORM.factory(Field("category", > requires=IS_IN_SET(["category1", "category2"]), comment="Choose a category > to update"), > Field("new_value", > "double")) > >if form.process().accepted

[web2py] Ticket Issued: Unrecoverable

2012-01-31 Thread Likit
I have seen several posts about this problem. I just had the problem and solved it. However, none of the several posts I read had the answer that applied in my case. I did not read ALL of the posts mentioning this problem so some of them may have had an applicable answer. If you are a linux noo

[web2py] Default controller function

2012-01-31 Thread Ed Greenberg
I have some html files which I want to render inside the layout. Something like this: {{extend 'layout.html'}} content goes here All it needs is an empty dict, since it won't look for anything from the controller to customize it. I put this file in views/default/content.html M

[web2py] Re: Default controller function

2012-01-31 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
How about this? {{extend 'layout.html'}}             {{include "default/content.html'}}     you do not need a controller function to include a view. On Jan 31, 4:18 pm, Ed Greenberg wrote: > I have some html files which I want to render inside the layout. > Something like this: > > {{extend

[web2py] 2 Questions regarding auth

2012-01-31 Thread Lewis
1. The book, in chapter 9, describes many methods accessible as part of the authorization system. Thus: The controller above exposes multiple actions: http://.../[app]/default/user/register http://.../[app]/default/user/login http://.../[app]/default/user/logout http://.../[app]/default/user/prof

Re: [web2py] Re: [w2py-dev] model less apps (a blog example)

2012-01-31 Thread Bruce Wade
Hi Bruno, I have been looking at your code. How would you override the Auth to not include first name last name using your class? IE: How would we do the following using your approach? (BaseAuth) db.define_table( auth.settings.table_user_name, Field('username', length=128, default='0

[web2py] Re: updating more than one record.

2012-01-31 Thread Ashraf Mansour
thanks a lot

[web2py] Re: Parse HTML from the database?

2012-01-31 Thread HittingSmoke
Thanks! At the moment this is just a personal blog that only I'm going to be posting on so security isn't an issue. Once I start expanding it out feature wise then I'll get more into security. I plan on eventually branching it off as a forum app as well so it will be important eventually.

[web2py] Re: Help with auth extra fields

2012-01-31 Thread HittingSmoke
If you're just looking to add fields and not completely redefine your auth table this is really simple. From the web2py book: ## after auth = Auth(db) > auth.settings.extra_fields['auth_user']= [ > Field('address'), > Field('city'), > Field('zip'), > Field('phone')] > ## before auth.defi

[web2py] Re: Any advice on spam control for a comment system?

2012-01-31 Thread monotasker
Thanks Benjamin. That sounds quite simple.

[web2py] Re: Any advice on spam control for a comment system?

2012-01-31 Thread monotasker
Thanks. I think I'll try the honeypot (hidden field) approach and see how successful it is.

[web2py] Re: Default controller function

2012-01-31 Thread pbreit
You pretty much need to add both a controller function and a view to add static pages like that. Otherwise, you would need to program some sort of traffic cop to see the incoming request and manually render it with a view. So create a controller content.py with something like this: def index()

[web2py] Re: [OT] e-mail delivery strategies

2012-01-31 Thread pbreit
In the beginning, I think the service providers are pretty good if you can afford it. Some have free tiers and pricing usually starts around $10/month. If you're on RackSpace cloud, you get free SendGrid. Postmark, Amazon and MailGun are other providers.

[web2py] Re: Help with auth extra fields

2012-01-31 Thread Jarvert
Hi Massimo, Thank you for the prompt reply. It wasn't an indentation problem. I made a silly mistake. I didn't realize auth.define_tables() was already called in earlier parts of the default code for db.py! Once again thank you & the community for developing something so awesome. On Feb 1,

[web2py] Re: 2 Questions regarding auth

2012-01-31 Thread Anthony
> > The controller above exposes multiple actions: > http://.../[app]/default/user/register > http://.../[app]/default/user/login > http://.../[app]/default/user/logout > http://.../[app]/default/user/profile > http://.../[app]/default/user/change_password > http://.../[app]/default/user/ver

[web2py] Error thrown using sample code from SQLFORM chapter of web2py book

2012-01-31 Thread monotasker
I'm trying to add a hidden form to a SQLFORM using the sample code on p. 331 of the 4th edition book (pdf): form.vars.a = request.vars.a form = SQLFORM(..., hidden=dict(a='b')) When I submit the form, though, I get an error because I'm calling the variable 'form' before assignment. If I reverse

[web2py] Error thrown using sample code from SQLFORM chapter of web2py book

2012-01-31 Thread pbreit
I think the assignment should be in the if form.process().accepted: clause.

[web2py] Re: Default controller function

2012-01-31 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
You can always put the static pages into app/static/ On Jan 31, 6:51 pm, pbreit wrote: > You pretty much need to add both a controller function and a view to add > static pages like that. > > Otherwise, you would need to program some sort of traffic cop to see the > incoming request and manually

Re: [web2py] Re: [w2py-dev] model less apps (a blog example)

2012-01-31 Thread Bruno Rocha
Hi Bruce, delete the database if the sample app created one, then replace modules/datamodel/user.py with this https://gist.github.com/1714979 -- Bruno Rocha [http://rochacbruno.com.br]

[web2py] Re: 2 Questions regarding auth

2012-01-31 Thread Lewis
Thanks. So, would I expand the default form to include buttons to access the other methods? Not sure how to expose those... Guess I am ok on hashing but should probably look at using the key.

Re: [web2py] Re: [w2py-dev] model less apps (a blog example)

2012-01-31 Thread Bruce Wade
Thanks that will do it, I was close to that exact same approach when I was playing around today. -- Regards, Bruce On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Bruno Rocha wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > delete the database if the sample app created one, then replace > modules/datamodel/user.py with this https://gi

[web2py] Re: Redbean-like ORM in web2py

2012-01-31 Thread Chnrxn
Thanks Anthony, that's exactly right. In fact, there is even no need for us to call db.define_table('person') at all with RedBean. It would look more like dal.insert(, =, ...) and gets created automatically if it does not exist. The best use case IMO is the ability to store/insert variable dictio

[web2py] Re: 2 Questions regarding auth

2012-01-31 Thread Anthony
On Wednesday, February 1, 2012 12:23:54 AM UTC-5, Lewis wrote: > > Thanks. > > So, would I expand the default form to include buttons to access the > other methods? Not sure how to expose those... > You just have to add links pointing to those URLs (e.g., URL('default', 'user', args='change_pa

[web2py] Re: Nesting HTML tables

2012-01-31 Thread tsvim
Well apparently you're correct. Nesting a table within a table is only possible if the inner table is within a td according to the HTML spec. (Not that it doesn't render ok in most browsers) I was copying from some Google result on nested tables. I managed to get my wanted result by setting a cor

[web2py] Re: First chapter that should be useful to some web2py users

2012-01-31 Thread amiroff
Please, keep up the series, very nicely done! On Jan 24, 8:29 pm, "ma...@rockiger.com" wrote: > Hello, > the tutorial is making some progress: > > Begining with chapter 5, it should be interesting for web2py users, that > are already familiar with the basics of web2py and want > to learn about fu