I am linking this from the new examples app. I assume you will be 
maintaining it. for a while. :-)
On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:38:22 UTC-5, Michael Beller wrote:
>
> Are you using 2.14.1 beta?
>
> I would try to get it running without changes before making changes 
> (unless you have a need to get it running on an old version of web2py).  As 
> Massimo pointed out, it's not necessarily backward compatible but other 
> than removing host_names (which I already did in the repo) I don't see why 
> it wouldn't work on an older version (I also had to remove formstyle from 
> appconfig to support an older version).
>
> I just installed a clean version using 
> git clone https://github.com/mjbeller/web2py-starter.git starter
> into 2.14.1 beta (actually current master) and then accessed
> /initialize/adminuser 
> <http://127.0.0.1:8000/starter2/initialize/adminuser> 
> to setup Admin user and auth_groups and everything worked fine.
>
> I'm still getting an odd error on 2.13.x which I can't figure out but I'm 
> content to move forward with just 2.14.1
>
> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 8:02:51 PM UTC-4, Ron Chatterjee wrote:
>>
>> Got it. As always, thank you Massimo. 
>>
>> I changed in db1.py
>>
>> auth.define_tables(username=True, signature=True)
>>
>> to 
>> auth.define_tables(username=False, signature=True)
>>
>> But in  the log in it still ask me for user name. 
>>
>> Also I get an error when I try to register.
>>
>> pydal\helpers\classes.py", line 18, in __init__
>>     return self.__dict__.__init__(*args, **kwargs)
>> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 7:32:18 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>>
>>> You cannot do that. You have an app created with web2py 2.14.1 beta and 
>>> run it with an older version of web2py. myconf.get is not defined.
>>> We only offer backward compatibility, not forward compatibility.
>>>
>>> Massimo
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 18:12:58 UTC-5, Ron Chatterjee wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> web2py version running: 2.12.3
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 6:36:34 PM UTC-4, Dave S wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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