Maybe look into plugins: http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/12#Plugins
On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 6:39:44 PM UTC-5, Paul Whipp wrote: > > 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.
