pyramid and paster setup-app

[oO]

What's the best way to modify a pyramid project to make use of paster
setup-app? I'm using pyramid with traversal and mongodb for
persistence, so I started with the default template which doesn't set
anything up for the setup-app portion, and I don't really know where
to start.

Any pointers? I obviously will need to access the settings so I can
create a MongoDB connection and setup the collections and indexes that
the app will use, as well as bootstrapping some of the data.

oO

[Chris McDonough]

On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 22:45 -0800, oO wrote:
> What's the best way to modify a pyramid project to make use of paster
> setup-app? I'm using pyramid with traversal and mongodb for
> persistence, so I started with the default template which doesn't set
> anything up for the setup-app portion, and I don't really know where
> to start.

Pyramid itself does not implement a paster command named 'setup-app', so
there really is no "setup-app portion". Instead I'd suggest using a
console script. Here's where, if I had one, I'd add a link to
documentation for creating a console script that loaded the environment
from an .ini file. However, I don't have one so I'll likely have to
just point you to the docs for "pyramid.paster" and "pyramid.scripting"
in the API section of the Pyramid docs.

- C

[oO]

Is there any reason why Pyramid wouldn't implement a paster setup-app
command? I understand I can create a script command (which I've done a
few times in Pylons) but I think that a standard hook would be very
beneficial, since most Pyramid based app probably need to bootstrap
some sort of persistence model default values and data.

oO

[Chris McDonough]

It seemed like too much framework for not much benefit over suggesting
that folks use a console script.

- C

[Wichert Akkerman]

It would be useful, but unfortunately paste's setup-app magic is so
fragile that it probably is not worth the effort.

Wichert.