I copied the config file from private and changed this to db1.py. auth = Auth(db, host_names=myconf.get('host.name'))
I still don't get the app running. Any suggestions? On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 6:36:34 PM UTC-4, Dave S wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 3:01:24 PM UTC-7, Literate Aspects wrote: >> >> Hi Rimas, >> >> I thank you for the kind thoughts, but I simply don't have that luxury. >> I read and I listen to the video tutorials, IF they matched the current >> live app, then following the step by step instructions would be straight >> forward, but the live app does not match the instructions, so at each step, >> one has to FIGURE out an unknown. >> >> > The only difference I recognized in the screen shots was that the book had > 1 more line in the header comment. The code lines you showed seemed to > match. But recognize that the code included in the Welcome app (which is > the code that gets used if you pressed the "Make new App" button on the > Web2Py "console" page) can get changed every release; the book tends not to > change as often. > > Some of these changes are simplification, some are taking advantage of new > features, and some are corrections. > > Going back to one of your earlier questions: > > def index(): return "Hello from MyApp" > > differs from > > def index(): return dict(message="Hello from MyApp") > > in a basic Python way ... the first returns a string, the second returns a > dictionary object, where the key "message" has the value "Hello from > MyApp:, which is a string. The generic views that come with Web2Py know > how to render a string. They also know how to render values retrieved from > a dictionary. Just about everything else is a special case of those 2 > basic capabilities. > > The BEAUTIFY() helper Rimas mentioned is something that gets executed on > the server (in rendering the views) to generate HTML that shows what's in > the object given as it's argument. If that argument is a dictionary like > the above, it will render a short table showing the key ("message") and its > value ("Hello From MyApp"). > > Chapter 2 covers some Python basics, and general Python tutorials and > books are available elsewhere. If you're totally new to programming, than > you may want to spend some time on those. If you're used to C or C# or > Java, Chapter 2 may be enough to get you started. > > Good luck! > > /dps > > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.