The mailing list summary from 12/04/06 - 12/13/06 is attached below. Note that many threads were omitted, mostly due to the answer being readily available in the relevant documentation. I haven't had much of a chance to work on summado, so this list was compiled by hand (which certainly provided motivation to get back to work). Please contact me with any comments or questions either here or off the list.
-Adam Announcements ============= TurboGears book available in PDF format --------------------------------------- Kevin announced that the TurboGears book is available in PDF format. It can be found here: http://www.phptr.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0132341603&rl=1 - `Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears available in PDF <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/16da4a7424dfab3b>`_ TurboMail has a new home, and a new release! -------------------------------------------- Matthew Bevan announced that TurboMail has a new release and a new home. The project is now being run through a Trac instance and now has more documentation. The new home for TurboMail is: http://trac.orianagroup.com/turbomail Here is the list of changes in the new release: * Corrected the MIME encoding of complex messages. * Allow an alternate envelope address via the `smtpfrom` property. * Attach and embed methods both allow you to pass an existing File descendant rather than require an on-disk path. - `TurboMail has a new home, and a new release! <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/c068b4a296f36e89>`_ TurboGears stuff on sale ------------------------ Kevin has put all of the TurboGears merchandise on sale. You can find (and buy) it here: http://www.turbogears.org/ultimate.html - `TurboGears stuff on sale <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/d253995c1dead596>`_ CherryPy Shop ------------- CherryPy now has a cafepress site where you can buy CherryPy-themed merchandise. You can find it here: http://www.cafepress.com/cherrypy - `CherryPy Shop <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/562f6da289b2efcd>`_ Tasty 1.1 released ------------------ Anders Pearson announced a 1.1 release of the Tasty REST-based tagging engine. This update is now compatible with TG 1.0b. It can be found here: http://microapps.sourceforge.net/tasty/ Some discussion of microapps and a more convenient way to use them within TurboGears followed. - `Tasty 1.1 <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/0193ce1b2da66075>`_ Summaries ========= Options for controlling the CherryPy process -------------------------------------------- Christopher Arndt wanted the community to know about his experiences using ``supervisord`` to control the CherryPy process. His notes can be found here: http://paddyland.serveblog.net/article/12 Anders Pearson also mentioned that he had notes on using supervisord as well as using workingenv.py to isolate application environments. Those notes can be found here: http://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2006/09/13/TurboGears-Deployment-with-supervisord-and-workingenv-py/ Contributing Thread: - `Options for controlling the CherryPy process <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/953e7acba2e21d2b>`_ Setting the password encryption algorithm in Identity w/ SQLAlchemy ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose Soares asked about and found the answer for changing the encryption algorithm used in Identity under the SQLAlchemy provider. Good job Jose, those are the kinds of questions we love answering! - `identity.saprovider.encryption_algorithm <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/d63db9a6a2ed66b8>`_ Best Practice for picture layout (displaying a data set in a fixed width/height grid) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Xiao asked about creating a table with a programmable number of rows and columns to be used in displaying pictures. He received a number of potential solutions. - `Best Practice for picture layout <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/2755be648f6a7fcb>`_ Problems using autostart.cgi ---------------------------- Iain Duncan was having problems getting autostart.cgi to restart the CherryPy process when it starts giving 502 errors. The problem turned out to be a combination of TurboGears' loading behavior (assumes it can look in the cwd if no script is manually specified) and the permissions assigned to the Apache user. - `Problems using autostart.cgi <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/18c9ba0d3fb3f8d0>`_ helpful snippet - force file download box to appear --------------------------------------------------- Ian Charnas wrote about modifying the 'Content-Type' response header to force a file download when needed. - `helpful snippet - force file download box to appear <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/f77d252901377ca2/ba1d778c25fb5e65>`_ Django-like filters for Kid --------------------------- Thesamet posted a patch that adds django-like filters to Kid (and later another for Genshi), which allows you to easily chain functions. - `Django-like filters for Kid <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/5d05cd555e687857>`_ Paginate and SQLAlchemy ----------------------- Sanjay asked about using the @paginate decorator with SQLAlchemy, which is currently available as a patch here: http://trac.turbogears.org/turbogears/ticket/1115 - `Paginate and SQLAlchemy <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/55b4887b4378cd75>`_ Difference with JSLink with render() and display ------------------------------------------------ Matthew Russell asked about methods of including needed JavaScript source files when a widget is sent out via serializing the output of its ``render()`` method instead of including it in a template. TurboGears examines widgets passed through a controller method and adds any of their JSLink or CSSLink targets to the head of the output document. Those same JSLinks and CSSLinks are available for examination and can be passed along with the rendered widget. With the exception of certain older versions of the Opera browser JavaScript sources can be dynamically added after the page has been loaded without issue. - `Difference with JSLink with render() and display <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/8e38b88743bcaf08>`_ Quickstart with SQLAlchemy and Identity in 1.0b2 ------------------------------------------------ Eric D Carlson informs us that the model.py file generated by TG 1.0b2 for use with Identity under SQLAlchemy does not specify the following include:: from sqlalchemy.ext.assignmapper import assignmapper This has been for the next release. - `Quickstart with SQLAlchemy and Identity in 1.0b2 <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/5deafa7f5d1743f8>`_ Showing form and handling it on the same URL -------------------------------------------- Thesamet asked about POSTing to the controller method that was used to generate a form instead of requiring two controller methods for this process. A number of solutions were proposed. Matthew Bevan has written some documentation on this process, it is posted here: http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/UnifiedControllers - `Showing form and handling it on the same URL <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/43cc8c5123160a66>`_ Website thumbnail genaration on Linux? -------------------------------------- Christopher Arndt asked about methods to generate a thumbnail for a website on linux. There are a number of potential solutions, most of which involve working with an enbedded instance of one of the browser's rendering engines. - `Website thumbnail genaration on Linux? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/3756b4571206d902>`_ Using TG under a non-root path ------------------------------ After getting Apache to proxy connections correctly between a non-root path and a TurboGears instance, Doug Grainger had problems with links built by TurboGears working under an assumed root. The solution was to set the ``server.webpath`` config variable to the additional directory structure required. - `non-root directory for apache proxy? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/9a36ee610e8445c6>`_ Catching all exceptions for production sites? TurboGears mailing list summaries --------------------------------- Steve Holden asked if someone was willing to provide summaries for the TurboGears mailing list, as the volume on the list has increased dramatically. Adam Jones agreed to do so. Multiple options for handling summary writing were discussed and a project to help make summaries a collaborative procedure has been started. - `I surrender <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/e50e7909c9d3e26f>`_ Generic Form Controller ----------------------- Ed Singleton created a generic form handling controller that attempts to save all supplied arguments as attributes on a provided object. This will work well for more simple forms that are saving data to a SQLObject class, and could be adapted for other uses. - `Generic Form Controller <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/2a9cca20dff1f10c>`_ Templates and paths ------------------- Catalin Marinas asked about working with Kid templates in an outside editor and specifying paths in such a way that they do not need to be changed between template editing and use in TG. This can be done with a pretty simple py:attr trick in the template that allows you to override the path when Kid renders it. - `Templates and paths <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/d133e31c56f9668c>`_ How to show a form error only near the respective field ------------------------------------------------------- Sanjay ran into a problem displaying form errors next to only one field when using a Schema Validator to process requirements for both fields. Alberto Valverde suggested looking at Formencode's ``FieldsMatch`` for a possible solution. Since the validator works on an entire form you must create an error dictionary and put the error in the field's key there. Sample code to do this was provided. - `How to show a form error only near the respective field <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/a2b5939794d0a63d>`_ Using JavaScript to warn the user when they have exceeded the text allowed for a field -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Wilson asked about ways to monitor a textarea element and let the user know when their text has exceeded the maximum for that field. Mochikit.Signal makes it easy to connect a JavaScript function that provides the required functionality to the text field. - `Need help with form input text validation <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/f642e82fb8f0f296>`_ More cool stuff from the dark corners of setuptools --------------------------------------------------- Adam Jones discussed using setuptools "console_scripts" entry point to automatically create a console script that starts your application when it is installed. Other uses for this and a potential patch to make it easier to enable this behavior were discussed. - `More cool stuff from the dark corners of setuptools <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/0441f81de5d987e0>`_ Duplicate log messages -- trouble? ---------------------------------- Jeff Hinrichs asked why TurboGears gives duplicate logging messages in development mode. This is caused by the way the CherryPy reloader is structured, does not affect servers running in production mode, and is not a problem in CP3. - `Duplicate log messages -- trouble? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/d7131218b2649478>`_ Declaring a custom XML namespace in Kid --------------------------------------- Ryan asked about configuring Kid to allow you to declare your own XML namespace and have it appear in template output. Christoph Zwerschke pointed out that Kid will omit any namespace entries if the output format is set to HTML, which does not support namespaces. This can be changed by setting the output format to "xhtml" and using the kid.XHTMLSerializer instead of kid.HTMLSerializer Need sqlobject help with 3-table inner join ------------------------------------------- Matt Wilson asked for help modeling a 3-table inner join in SQLObject. Both a join-based and a view-based solution for this were discussed. - `Need sqlobject help with 3-table inner join <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/177414f7cd8d4fb1>`_ Storing a select result between page requests --------------------------------------------- Collin L asked about a way to store a SQLObject SelectResult between requests. Although it is possible to store Python objects in a ram-based CherryPy session, that was not really what that component was designed to do and it will create problems eventually. Storing the row ids was seen as an acceptable workaround. - `save SELECT result set in the session <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/106f6d4ac9571927>`_ Generating HTML fragments in Kid -------------------------------- Nick Murdoch asked how to stop Kid from generating the doctype and xml tags when you are only trying to generate a fragment of HTML. Lee McFadden provided a solution by using a fragment="true" argument in the expose decorator. disabling autocomplete widget from controller --------------------------------------------- Mike asked about a method of disabling an autocomplete widget from the controller. Alberto Valverde suggested passing options from the controller class that will set the disabled attribute and using those options in the autocomplete widget. Sample code was provided. - `disabling autocomplete widget from controller <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/09ca3e6997f8cecc>`_ Paginate stops working in prod? ------------------------------- Chris Cioffi wrote to ask why pagination works in development mode but does not in production. Andrew Grover suggesting the following configuration setting, which fixes this issue: tg.strict_parameters = True - `Paginate stops working in prod? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/11d1fa77286eab6f>`_ Identity model problems while upgrading to TurboGears 1.0b2 ----------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Arndt wrote to mention that upgrades to 1.0b2 from versions of TurboGears from before the 1603 changeset may break Identity. A full write up with solutions is available here: http://paddyland.serveblog.net/article/14 - `Identity model problems while upgrading to TurboGears 1.0b2 <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/821793a616523e96>`_ Displaying fields in a Widget without iterating over the field list ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Wilson asked about a method besides iteration for displaying fields in a widget. Alberto Valverde noted that ``value_for``, ``error_for``, etc all accept a string that represents the name of a widget in the list in addition to the widget instance. Omitted Threads =============== - `TurboGears 1.0b2 and workingenv.py <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/3cd06c38b0f7ee47>`_ - `Any indication when 1.1 might get released? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/812ebf702010c57a>`_ - `Common templates for multiple sites <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/fc7f98d319663823>`_ - `Problem with install TG app as windows service <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/c485afdb16133d76>`_ - `TurboGears vs Django <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/d3998a4e750c39c9>`_ - `Debug Turbogears with wingIDE <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/9b3f1617c88c5bab>`_ - `Multiple chained_validators possible? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/3bd068774bebbc9c>`_ - `Catching all exceptions for production sites? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/343e2346ec224daa>`_ - `cloning projects <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/cc8f63edf0446049>`_ - `Turbogearsbook - Bookmarker - example <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/53aa1384ffe57274>`_ - `Disable NestedVariablesFilter in config file? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/9bc6d5aa87198994>`_ - `How about ZK? Ajax but no Javascript <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/a71e19c89ce18b1c>`_ - `Is there any 'tree' template? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/290d6cdac6d0d6c3>`_ - `Multiple buttons on a single form <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/f06d4df7bbda8c61>`_ - `HOWTO display elements in limited rows and cols? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/36d44f02294878fd>`_ - `When I throw an Exception in controller <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/e62e197ed5d2907a>`_ - `using Identity management how can i display login as a floating window <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/678f12cf57dfc1d6>`_ - `Converting between Databases <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/b6c47e00c7f71507>`_ - `Turbogears, more than rapid web development framework. <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/15cbfdc241e4e324>`_ - `I can't post here!! <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/f16c69e38a3b313f>`_ - `form's field validation / integer conversion <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/9cc62aa2427f000c>`_ - `turbogears interest.. <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/ce2d464b48542404>`_ - `problem getting tg-admin makexe to work <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/2bb4b9a248228e5d>`_ - `JS/CSS where is it <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/018b6c9169288bdc>`_ - `how do I send in correction for the TurboGears book? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/78430f1084bd054c>`_ - `Running site in a subdirectory behind apache breaks widget javascript loads <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/dabe7cff4f6cf04d>`_ - `The input field 'self' was not expected. <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/c2a70a9962e08b6e>`_ - `hooking autoreload <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/647d0603a17730f6>`_ - `How to serve up the most recent wordpress blog entry inside a TG page? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/5ee0dfa7a4458e15>`_ - `Zen of TurboGears? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/3c123956991a65f9>`_ - `toscawidgets.form.DataGrid and friends <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/6d07559c970246bb>`_ - `genshi and mochikit <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/ab3b24da9f9732d2>`_ - `easy_install ToscaWidgets[cheetah,kid,genshi] <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/b3791cdb004babdb>`_ - `Help! Problems using ${ .. } (Kid/template notation) with Python \*\*classes\*\*! <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/118c2f50d0ccae5d>`_ - `Reusing block <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/686a468e6347e933>`_ - `Adding a navigation bar to master.kid <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/7db925e8975e622d>`_ - `[patch] grid css <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/e2d393ccfd7ef5cd>`_ - `Why is the default Mochikit missing modules? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/4e63c0c42f5e52d0>`_ - `Offline install problem <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/85477b753069d02d>`_ - `ToscaWidgets: shortcut to define child fields <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/60e31bdd29b26e82>`_ - `i18n and plural forms? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/0ed0879249effa0d>`_ - `SQLObject migration proposal <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/bd1468df2fb885b3>`_ - `Database schema changes after adding a user <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/abf238097c5ca312>`_ - `To make turbogears talk to a data source other than Database <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/6924bdc1966a6cbf>`_ Ongoing Threads =============== - `testing controllers with enabled identity <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/b261ebaccad5b5e2>`_ - `sqlalchemy and run_with_transaction <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/a81bfa81143c3a82>`_ - `Use of ODBC DSN in TurboGears <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/2b36f140c43cb510>`_ - `more than one RDBMS <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/640568e6efdd6a80>`_ - `KID template i18n <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/adddc130c5158e6b>`_ - `Exception using identity model <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/4b2c397ce93645ef>`_ - `ToscaWidgets <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/dfe6030c69d201fa>`_ - `paginate and default <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/5b3d07728bbd685d>`_ - `A problem with lighty/TG using an UDS for the backend <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/68002e5219890a4d>`_ - `Possible new widget: HidingSingleSelectField <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/97cdd4a2cf77b8eb>`_ - `How to quickstart a project with genshi? <http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/0c1be4f6bed2fe11>`_ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. 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