Thank you all for your suggestions.  I'll check out those links and
give it a try, hopefully it will work!

Thanks,
Karen

On Oct 12, 9:31 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 14:41:12 Karen McNeil wrote:
>
> > Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "declarative" and Elixir.  Is
> > Elixir a built-in part of Turbogears?  Am I putting something extra in
> > here that I don't need?  (I'm just trying to do a quickstart project.)
>
> All this has little to nothing to do with TG itself. As I said, TG is a
> "meta"-framework. All things concerning ORM-mapping are SQLAlchemy (or
> actually whatever you chose)
>
> In a quickstarted project, SQLAlchemy (SA) is used, and it's so-called
> declarative ORM mappings.
>
> We use Elixir, a thin layer around SA that roughly does the same as
> declarative (it comes from a time when SA hadn't had these). It's a question
> of taste.
>
> The one and only thing were TG gets into play (well, sort of) is when you use
> one of those tg-admin-thingies. I never cared for them, but I guess using
> declarative should be ok for them.
>
> Diez

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