On Jan 10, 2012, at 6:04 AM, Jim Steil wrote: > I'm looking for input on how people manage their database connection when > setting up your app in a Mercurial repository. > > If I just add my app and db.py to my repository, then every time I setup a > different development machine to access it, the app will, by default, point > to the same database. But, this database connection isn't correct when I'm > working on my laptop or from a home workstation and therefore, I need a > different way to specify my db connection info. > > The solution I've come up with is to have a config file (using configobj) > hold my db information, and read it in db.py to get the info. But, then this > causes even more overhead on each request. > > Also, what do you do about your databases sub-directory? I would think that > I don't want to track any changes there, but when my repo gets cloned an > empty databases directory should be placed there.
web2py should create the databases subdirectory for you if it's not there (at the beginning of the first request).
