[web2py] Re: Difficulty with auth.signature when renaming auth tables

2013-04-07 Thread Anthony
Looks like by default, auth.signature gets defined when Auth is initialized, which is before you have set the custom table names. To avoid this do: auth = Auth(db, signature=False) In that case, auth.signature will instead be defined when you call auth.define_tables(), by which point the

[web2py] Re: Difficulty with auth.signature when renaming auth tables

2013-04-07 Thread Jason Phillips
Thank you so much, that solved it. (It might be helpful to others if that important caveat makes it into the relevant section of documentationhttp://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/09#Renaming-Auth-tables at some point, though I know that not every detail can be explained succinctly

[web2py] Re: Difficulty with auth.signature when renaming auth tables

2013-04-07 Thread Anthony
I agree -- this is certainly not obvious (had to look at the code to figure out what was going on). Anthony On Sunday, April 7, 2013 8:55:15 PM UTC-4, Jason Phillips wrote: Thank you so much, that solved it. (It might be helpful to others if that important caveat makes it into the