Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears: Using Python to Create Ajax-Powered Sites

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Master TurboGears: The Easy Python Framework for Rapid Web Development

TurboGears harnesses the power of Python to provide a dynamic and easy-to-use Web development framework: one that
dramatically increases developer productivity, and makes it far easier to create dynamic, user-friendly, Ajax-enabled Web applications. Now, for the first time, there’s a definitive guide to TurboGears—coauthored by its creator, Kevin Dangoor.

This book will help experienced Web developers get productive with TurboGears—fast. You’ll quickly build your first TurboGears Web application—then extend it one step at a time, mastering the underlying libraries that make these enhancements possible. Next, the authors demonstrate TurboGears at work in a real-world application, by examining the code for “WhatWhat Status,” an open source project status tracking application. Finally, you’ll gain deep insight into the model, view, and controller technologies TurboGears is built upon: knowledge that will help you build far more robust and capable Python applications.

Coverage includes

Understanding the architecture of a TurboGears application
Mastering SQLObject, customizing it, and using it with TurboGears models
Utilizing TurboGears view technologies, including dynamic templates and MochiKit for Ajax
Bringing CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript together in reusable components with TurboGears Widgets
Using CherryPy and TurboGears controller technologies: from decorators to deployment
Exploring the TurboGears toolbox
Ensuring security and managing user access permissions in TurboGears applications

Preface xxiii

Acknowledgments xxv

Part I: TurboGears Fundamentals

Chapter 1: Introduction to TurboGears 3

Chapter 2 Getting Started with TurboGears 13

Chapter 3: The Architecture of a TurboGears Application 25

Part II: Building a Simple TurboGears Application

Chapter 4: Creating a Simple Application 43

Chapter 5: Enhancing Our Bookmark Application 59

Part III: Exploring a Real World TurboGears Application

Chapter 6: Exploring More Complex Models in WhatWhat Status 83

Chapter 7: Controllers, Views, and JavaScript in the WhatWhat Status 97