Re: [web2py] Re: File generation using web2py

2012-04-30 Thread RAHUL PRIYADARSI
Dear All, Thanks for your answers.But what I was looking for was,putting into simple words,implementing a use case similar to the following The system maintains the data related to each transaction.Each transaction includes the list of items demanded per transaction with each item belonging to a

[web2py] Re: are 8 stickys really necessary at the top of this forum?

2012-04-30 Thread Ashraf Mansour
Thank you...

[web2py] Re: Images work in IE9, vanish in firefox

2012-04-30 Thread Simon Pickles
Adblock plus. That was the issue. It intercepted the images and turned all the css to null. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3558071/img-tag-greyed-out-in-firebug-hence-found-the-reason-for-image-not-showing-up Thanks for help, Antony

[web2py] Re: Images work in IE9, vanish in firefox

2012-04-30 Thread Stefan Scholl
Simon Pickles sipick...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply. Oddly there is no missing image icon. The alt text seems to flash up then disappear. Don't try to load the whole page, just the image with its image URL. This way you could see if there is any error reported.

Re: [web2py] Re: File generation using web2py

2012-04-30 Thread Khalil KHAMLICHI
Raul, when working with the web you always (most of the times) create the files server side and invite user to download it and save it to his file system, this sais you don't need to access the file system yourself, just invite the user to download your file and you are done. for csv versus txt

Re: [web2py] sqlite int field that behave as string ?

2012-04-30 Thread Johann Spies
On 29 April 2012 17:51, Sebastian E. Ovide sebastian.ov...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, I have a field defined as integer but for some reason it is string In [34]: db.agreement.client_stars.type Out[34]: 'integer' In [35]: db(db.agreement.client_stars 10

Re: [web2py] Re: Emails never making it to hotmail accounts

2012-04-30 Thread Michele Comitini
@Bruce, Do you have the logs of the mailer at hand? If you are not using a mail relay (also called smart host) you should receive some code from hotmail mx server(s). That should point you in the right direction. mic Il 30 aprile 2012 06:55, tsvim ttm...@gmail.com ha scritto: i just looked up

Re: [web2py] Re: File generation using web2py

2012-04-30 Thread RAHUL PRIYADARSI
Thanks Mr.Khalil! I will surely give it a try! On 30 April 2012 13:24, Khalil KHAMLICHI khamlichi.kha...@gmail.com wrote: Raul, when working with the web you always (most of the times) create the files server side and invite user to download it and save it to his file system, this sais you

Re: [web2py] Re: Cookbook recipe for nginx/uwsgi woes

2012-04-30 Thread Johann Spies
On 29 April 2012 22:34, Bill Barry waba...@gmail.com wrote: I am running web2py on Debian with nginx and the uwsgi-plugin-python package. My configuration is similar to yours, but uses mount instead of app uwsgi pluginpython/plugin socket127.0.0.1:9001/socket

[web2py] Amazon EC2 discussion

2012-04-30 Thread lucas
hello one and all, i am curious about using a cloud, like Amazon EC2. i don't know anything about it. but i am curious. i have always setup my own server and run, but my needs have changed for more media and the throughput of my internet will be challenged if i try to host my server

[web2py] Amazon EC2 discussion: pros/cons, etc.

2012-04-30 Thread lucas
hello one and all, i am curious about using a cloud, like Amazon EC2. i don't know anything about it. but i am curious and interested. i have always setup my own server and run it. but my needs have changed for more media and the throughput of my internet will be challenged if i try to

[web2py] redirect('http://www.web2py.com')

2012-04-30 Thread Hassan Alnatour
Dear ALL , I am trying to use redirect like this : def members(): if request.vars.fb == 1: redirect('http://www.web2py.com') users = db().select(db.users.ALL,orderby=~db.users.Placeorder) return dict(users=users) but it keep taking me to my website index page or

Re: [web2py] Amazon EC2 discussion

2012-04-30 Thread Bruce Wade
I am sure you can run that. However be aware EC2 is kind of slow we started to use it but were very unhappy for speed to price. Linode with their nodebalancer is working for us and allowing us to scale. On Apr 30, 2012 2:55 AM, lucas sjluk...@gmail.com wrote: hello one and all, i am curious

[web2py] web2py resources

2012-04-30 Thread Anthony
Most web2py resources can be found on web2py.com http://www.web2py.com, but here are some Google Groups topics identifying additional resources: web2py help resourceshttps://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/e2SL5ViOhL4/discussion

[web2py] Re: are 8 stickys really necessary at the top of this forum?

2012-04-30 Thread Anthony
I created a single new web2py resources sticky that links to five of the old stickies, unstuck two outdated stickies, and left one, so now we're down to two stickies. :-) Anthony On Sunday, April 29, 2012 2:55:35 PM UTC-4, simon wrote: Is it really necessary to have 8 stickies pinned to the

[web2py] Re: request.intargs RFC

2012-04-30 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
On Sunday, 29 April 2012 19:56:21 UTC-5, Anthony wrote: On Sunday, April 29, 2012 7:54:11 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: I often run into this problem: def index(): record=db.tablename(request.args(0)) or redirect(URL('error')) which assumes request.args(0) is integer or

Re: [web2py] date type field issue with db.tablename.fieldname.default = request.vars.fieldname

2012-04-30 Thread Richard Vézina
It may had been solve, I am under 1.99.4. When I have time I will test with 1.99.7 and trunk and report/open ticket if still there. Thanks Richard On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Massimo Di Pierro massimo.dipie...@gmail.com wrote: Please open a ticket about this. It should be done

[web2py] Re: Amazon EC2 discussion: pros/cons, etc.

2012-04-30 Thread Richard Galka
I had a setup for a while with freebsd, web2py (and corresponding dependencies). There was very little difference on setup between amazone ec2 and the bare metal machines I previously set everything up on. Just remember, by default no guaranteed static IP... On Monday, April 30, 2012 4:59:21

Re: [web2py] Re: Reloading modules

2012-04-30 Thread Richard Galka
I would also like to comment that I suspect (unconfirmed) that reloading of modules while references are still around appears to potentially cause memory leaks.. during dev while modules are reloaded, our app's memory usage grows significantly. With this disabled, we find a consistent

[web2py] Re: redirect('http://www.web2py.com')

2012-04-30 Thread Anthony
I cannot reproduce -- for me, redirect('http://www.web2py.com') redirects to www.web2py.com as expected. When you call redirect('some_url'), web2py issues a 303 response with the Location HTTP header set to 'some_url' -- the client is then responsible for redirecting to that URL. Are you by

[web2py] Re: request.intargs RFC

2012-04-30 Thread Anthony
request.args(0,default=0, cast=int, requires=list_of_validators, url_onerror=URL(...)) I like it.

[web2py] Re: sqlite int field that behave as string ?

2012-04-30 Thread Anthony
note: probably (I don't remember) it was String at some point... That could be the problem if it's SQLite -- see http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/6#Fixing-broken-migrations. Anthony

Re: [web2py] Amazon EC2 discussion

2012-04-30 Thread vinicius...@gmail.com
We use it. We're happy, but the app doesn't have high traffic. As far as I see in real cases, AWS is a great place to host. I'm planning to make a new migration to their platform next month. On 04/30/2012 06:55 AM, lucas wrote: hello one and all, i am curious about using a cloud, like

[web2py] Re: Amazon EC2 discussion: pros/cons, etc.

2012-04-30 Thread lucas
wow, really, so did you actually install freebsd on your EC2 harddisk slice because i don't see freebsd under the amazon EC2 operating systems. i do see redhat enterprise 6, which is probably very very similar to centos 6. and with that freebsd install, did you install and use a relational

Re: [web2py] Re: Reloading modules

2012-04-30 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Yes. because it depends on what module does. You should not do this in production. Many other frameworks treat models and controllers and they potentially suffer from this problem (depending on the module). This is why in web2py models and controllers are not modules, to avoid this problem.

[web2py] Re: Amazon EC2 discussion: pros/cons, etc.

2012-04-30 Thread Anthony
Looks like there are a couple community AMI's for CentOS 6.2: https://aws.amazon.com/amis/centos-6-2-base-version-1-0-32-bit-1332109399 https://aws.amazon.com/amis/centos-6-2-lamp-32-bit-apache-http-2-4-1-mysql-5-5-12-php-5-4-0-version-1-0-1332109551 Anthony On Monday, April 30, 2012 12:11:14

Re: [web2py] Amazon EC2 discussion

2012-04-30 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
I have only used it long ago. It was clumsy and slow to deploy. I found there are other web hosts that use EC2 infrastructure but provide better interfaces and management tools. Although I never tried any of them. On Monday, 30 April 2012 09:45:17 UTC-5, viniciusban wrote: We use it. We're

[web2py] Admin of list:string

2012-04-30 Thread Keith Edmunds
In the database admin application, when editing a record from table with a list:string field, the field is not pre-populated with the current value. Test model: db.define_table('t_colours', Field('f_colour', type='list:string', label=T('Colour'))) db.t_colours.f_colour.requires =

[web2py] Re: Creating a table or a an entry in a DB from index()

2012-04-30 Thread Madu
Thank you everybody. I defined my tables in db.py but made them able to be populated from index(). It worked. I'm not sure why tables entries inserted from index() is persistent but not tables defined from index(). I'm reading through the DAL again to see what I missed. Thank you very much all.

[web2py] Re: Admin of list:string

2012-04-30 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
should be this: db.define_table('t_colours', Field('f_colour', type='string', label=T('Colour'))) db.t_colours.f_colour.requires = IS_IN_SET(('Red','Blue','Black')) or this: db.define_table('t_colours', Field('f_colour', type='list:string', label=T('Colour')))

[web2py] Re: Creating a table or a an entry in a DB from index()

2012-04-30 Thread Anthony
I'm not sure why tables entries inserted from index() is persistent but not tables defined from index(). Because those are two different operations. When you enter data into a db table, you are storing the data in the database itself, so obviously it will be persistent. When you define a

Re: [web2py] Postgres error

2012-04-30 Thread Loreia
Hi Bruce, G-mail failed to warn me about your answer, so I noticed it only today. Thanks a lot, it worked like a charm. The same code worked in sqlite, but I guess Postgres is more restrictive. Thank you and BR Loreia On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:13:33 PM UTC+2, Bruce Wade wrote:

[web2py] Re: Postgres error

2012-04-30 Thread Loreia
Thanks, after Bruce's post I realized I needed to inspect what DAL does on database (by checking result of database creation in pgAdmin IIIhttp://www.pgadmin.org/) and not just follow examples from the book (which worked without issues in sqlite). That helped me find a number of issues in my

[web2py] proposed fix for onvalidation when editing an existing record with an upload field

2012-04-30 Thread Carlos
Hi Massimo, The onvalidation function is not getting properly executed when editing an existing record with an upload field with an already uploaded file, as stated in the following current fix (just after FORM.accepts call in SQLFORM.accepts @ sqlhtml.py): if not ret and self.record

[web2py] Re: proposed fix for onvalidation when editing an existing record with an upload field

2012-04-30 Thread Carlos
After further testing, it looks this proposed fix incorrectly removes the file from the upload field in the record being edited ... not sure yet. Can something be done along these lines to make onvalidation work properly?. On Monday, April 30, 2012 2:21:37 PM UTC-5, Carlos wrote: Hi Massimo,

[web2py] web2py resources

2012-04-30 Thread Anthony
Most web2py resources can be found on web2py.com, but here are some Google Groups topics identifying additional resources: web2py help resourceshttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/sne1n0WKh6k/elCU9OJ7O4cJ Pluginshttps://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/web2py/vGfyX_N9cRY Signature

[web2py] Re: web2py syntax for vim

2012-04-30 Thread monotasker
Thanks very much for doing this. Have you considered putting it in a github repo so that it's a bit easier to use and fork? Ian On Sunday, May 15, 2011 5:44:42 PM UTC-4, pancurster wrote: Hi, I was looking today for vim syntax for web2py templates but I didn't find it. So I make my own.

[web2py] Re: proposed fix for onvalidation when editing an existing record with an upload field

2012-04-30 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Please open a ticket with the problem description. On Monday, 30 April 2012 14:29:01 UTC-5, Carlos wrote: After further testing, it looks this proposed fix incorrectly removes the file from the upload field in the record being edited ... not sure yet. Can something be done along these lines

Re: [web2py] Re: File generation using web2py

2012-04-30 Thread Brian M
Yep, it is the web, you can't automatically write a file directly to the user's computer (Holy security issues Batman!) but you can provide them the prepared file as a download that they can then save to wherever they want. Doesn't matter if it is CSV or TXT or HTML or PDF or RTF whatever.

[web2py] Re: proposed fix for onvalidation when editing an existing record with an upload field

2012-04-30 Thread Carlos
http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=778 On Monday, April 30, 2012 3:40:29 PM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: Please open a ticket with the problem description. On Monday, 30 April 2012 14:29:01 UTC-5, Carlos wrote: After further testing, it looks this proposed fix incorrectly

Re: [web2py] Re: Reloading modules

2012-04-30 Thread Yarin
@Massimo- The initial issue was about reloading modules for development not production. from gluon.custom_import import track_changes; track_changes(True) was not consistently reloading modules on each request while we were developing locally on the Rocket server, though I can't

Re: [web2py] Amazon EC2 discussion

2012-04-30 Thread vinicius...@gmail.com
We deploy using git pull. On 04/30/2012 01:33 PM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: I have only used it long ago. It was clumsy and slow to deploy. I found there are other web hosts that use EC2 infrastructure but provide better interfaces and management tools. Although I never tried any of them. On

[web2py] How would I do something like this?

2012-04-30 Thread Bruce Wade
@auth.requires_membership('Analytics' or 'Analytics Manager') def index(): return dict(message=hello from analytics.py) -- -- Regards, Bruce Wade http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade http://www.wadecybertech.com http://www.fittraineronline.com - Fitness Personal Trainers Online

[web2py] Re: How would I do something like this?

2012-04-30 Thread Bruce Wade
@auth.requires_membership('Analytics','Analytics Manager') Is that the correct way? it seems to be working On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Bruce Wade bruce.w...@gmail.com wrote: @auth.requires_membership('Analytics' or 'Analytics Manager') def index(): return dict(message=hello from

[web2py] Re: How would I do something like this?

2012-04-30 Thread Bruce Wade
Never mind it doesn't work On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Bruce Wade bruce.w...@gmail.com wrote: @auth.requires_membership('Analytics','Analytics Manager') Is that the correct way? it seems to be working On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Bruce Wade bruce.w...@gmail.com wrote:

[web2py] Strange import problem

2012-04-30 Thread Bruce Wade
applications/advertisement/modules/util.py from gluon import * def make_page_breadcrumbs(page_breadcrumbs_items): page_breadcrumbs_items_buffer = [ DIV(SPAN(, _class=breadcrumbs-arrow),SPAN(crumb)) for crumb in page_breadcrumbs_items ] return DIV(page_breadcrumbs_items_buffer) def

Re: [web2py] How would I do something like this?

2012-04-30 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Bruce Wade bruce.w...@gmail.com wrote: @auth.requires_membership('Analytics' or 'Analytics Manager') def index():     return dict(message=hello from analytics.py) I am a bit new to this, but my understanding is that this is what you want.

Re: [web2py] How would I do something like this?

2012-04-30 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Bruce Wade bruce.w...@gmail.com wrote: @auth.requires_membership('Analytics' or 'Analytics Manager') def index():     return dict(message=hello from analytics.py) I am a bit new to this,

[web2py] Re: How would I do something like this?

2012-04-30 Thread Annet
Hi Bruce, I had the same problem, this is the best solution, according to Anthony (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/web2py/A0z8DSZdYTo/H_1N6_4MZfEJ): @auth.requires(lambda: auth.has_membership('Analytics') or auth.has_membership('Analytics Manager)) I made the groups constants, in my

[web2py] Re: Strange import problem

2012-04-30 Thread Annet
What about: from applications.advertisement.modules.util.py import* Annet

[web2py] SQLFORM.grid edit form

2012-04-30 Thread Keith Edmunds
I have a SQLFORM.grid, and I want to add a button to the form used to edit records (as called from the grid). Is that possible? -- You can have everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want - Zig Ziglar. Who did you help today?