I copied the config file from private and changed this to db1.py.
auth = Auth(db, host_names=myconf.get('host.name'))
I still don't get the app running. Any suggestions?
On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 6:36:34 PM UTC-4, Dave S wrote:
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>
>
> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 3:01:24 PM UTC-7, Literate Aspects wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rimas,
>>
>> I thank you for the kind thoughts, but I simply don't have that luxury.
>> I read and I listen to the video tutorials, IF they matched the current
>> live app, then following the step by step instructions would be straight
>> forward, but the live app does not match the instructions, so at each step,
>> one has to FIGURE out an unknown.
>>
>>
> The only difference I recognized in the screen shots was that the book had
> 1 more line in the header comment. The code lines you showed seemed to
> match. But recognize that the code included in the Welcome app (which is
> the code that gets used if you pressed the "Make new App" button on the
> Web2Py "console" page) can get changed every release; the book tends not to
> change as often.
>
> Some of these changes are simplification, some are taking advantage of new
> features, and some are corrections.
>
> Going back to one of your earlier questions:
>
> def index(): return "Hello from MyApp"
>
> differs from
>
> def index(): return dict(message="Hello from MyApp")
>
> in a basic Python way ... the first returns a string, the second returns a
> dictionary object, where the key "message" has the value "Hello from
> MyApp:, which is a string. The generic views that come with Web2Py know
> how to render a string. They also know how to render values retrieved from
> a dictionary. Just about everything else is a special case of those 2
> basic capabilities.
>
> The BEAUTIFY() helper Rimas mentioned is something that gets executed on
> the server (in rendering the views) to generate HTML that shows what's in
> the object given as it's argument. If that argument is a dictionary like
> the above, it will render a short table showing the key ("message") and its
> value ("Hello From MyApp").
>
> Chapter 2 covers some Python basics, and general Python tutorials and
> books are available elsewhere. If you're totally new to programming, than
> you may want to spend some time on those. If you're used to C or C# or
> Java, Chapter 2 may be enough to get you started.
>
> Good luck!
>
> /dps
>
>
>
>
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