On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:01 AM, pbreit wrote: > I could see supporting the editing of app-specific routes. But as you note, > this requires a web server restart which could trip people up.
It's possible to call rewrite.load, which will reload the routes without requiring a restart. However, as load is currently written, syntax errors (even in app-specific routes files) are fatal. > > I still have a very difficult time restarting web2py. Is that something that > could be triggered in admin? In principle, it could, but it'd be a function of the operation mode (which of the handlers is being used). It'd require non-trivial changes, though. > > This also might suggest that app-specific routing should be "On" by default. > That doesn't necessarily mean there has to exist an app-specific routes.py > file but if one is added, it wold get used without needing to set up routing > at the web2py level. Or is that how it already works? Everything gets loaded (or reloaded) at once.
