On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 2:37 PM, JohnWShipman <[email protected]> wrote: > I bought Gardner's _The Definitive Guide to Pylons_, but it is already > out of date. > I wrote to the author's desired address ([email protected]) to > ask about > updates, but the mail bounced. > > It would be really handy to have a version of this extremely well- > written work > that has the 1.0 changes in it. I could get my work to pay for a PDF, > if there is no > new paper edition forthcoming.
I think he was leaving it open for the community to update to 1.0 but it hasn't happened. As far as I know there's no new edition of the paper book planned. Obviously, it costs the publisher a lot to do an update, so they can't do it for every version of every program. As for practical suggestions, I'd say start with the Pylons 1 application template-- that'll preconfigure everything as it should be now. Glance over the upgrading article so you'll be aware of what things in the book may be out of date: http://pylonshq.com/docs/en/1.0/upgrading/ As wojtek said, the most visible changes are url_for -> url, and redirect_to -> redirect(url(...)) . The biggest changes to Routes and WebHelpers got into the book, so the changes since then are minor, mainly new features. It's worth looking at their manuals anyway: http://routes.groovie.org/contents.html http://webhelpers.groovie.org/contents.html http://webhelpers.groovie.org/whats_new.html I wouldn't spend much time on AuthKit (chapter 18). Repoze.who/what has become more widespread and I don't think James is recommending AuthKit any longer. FormBuild also is one form builder out of many. You can read about the alternatives here: http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Forms But I would learn the standard Pylons approach to forms (template based, optionally with WebHelpers, and FormEncode for validation) before venturing into object-oriented form-and-model packages. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
