Thanks Jonathan! If I can set it when defining the DAL that's perfect.
On Monday, May 21, 2012 6:18:06 PM UTC-5, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > On May 21, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Andrew wrote: > > I've put together a web2py skeleton for OpenShift PaaS ( > https://github.com/prelegalwonder/openshift_web2py) and am trying to > tweak it for things like persisting sqlite through git pushes. In order to > do that I need to change where web2py stores it's sqlite db files from > applications/app/databases to the path of $OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR. I'm looking > at gluon/dal.py and I believe this is defined in the SQLiteAdapter class in > the init function but I'm not clear how "databases" is getting appended to > the path for where the sqlite file gets stored. > > Could anyone direct me to where this is happening or / and suggest a good > way to externalize this so it's easier to define? This is really only an > issue for sqlite but I'd like to make sure it's handled properly for people > who are just getting started with web2py and might not be using things like > mysql etc that would cause them to lose changes between git pushes since > the persistent data wouldn't be saved to a persistent directory. > > > The default is set in gluon.compileapp.build_environment: > > BaseAdapter.set_folder(os.path.join(request.folder, 'databases')) > > It looks like you can override it with DAL(... folder=whatever ...) >
