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

Chapter 2.5. Summary

• The TurboGears command tg-admin quickstart can create a brand new TurboGears project for you, complete with all the files you need to get started.

• TurboGears publishes the methods defined in the root controller (which you can find in controllers.py).

• TurboGears templates are standard XHTML documents, with a few extra processing directives.

• TurboGears uses decorators such as @expose(template=“hello.template.welcome”) to determine which methods can be called directly from the web, and to define which template can be used to render the final page.

• When your controller returns a dict, the contents of that dictionary are automatically available as local variables in your template.

• If you’re running Python 2.3, you can use decorators ...