I'm new to web2py but not to Python or web application frameworks. I love the dry pythonic nature of web2py. I'm less enamoured by its use of magic but the convenient REP makes this mostly forgivable. I'm giving web2py a go on a couple of real projects.
As I use emacs, it looks like it would be straightforward to modify the admin app to pass a file to an emacs service (if available) for editing. Its also easy to copy the admin application, call it myadmin and make the change there. These are both bad things to do because; in the first case an upgrade will overwrite my change (yes I use source control but its still going to be a pain), and in the second case I've copied a large slice of code and lost the benefit of upgrades in myadmin which could lead to all sorts of problems in the long term. What I want to do is specialize the admin app such that I just use my specialised default controller with its single specialized edit method (the latter specialisation is a little tricky because the method is a bit monolithic but you can see what I'm aiming at). The result would be a specialization of the admin app called myadmin containing virtually nothing but the specialized default controller and edit method. I cannot see any obvious way to do this. Am I going to have to make like a PHP programmer and copy the whole application to make one small change or is there some cool way to unravel the magic a bit and point the myadmin file lookups to admin, except for my controllers/default.py? For the time being I'll stick with navigating the file structure and invoking emacs directly, so my question is more of a "How would I". I've tried google to no avail and I'll be happy for an RTFM response if you can point me at the FM (or an example) that covers this. Cheers, Paul -- --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
