That tutorial is quite old, so still uses ToscaWidgets1, TurboGears2.2 now enables ToscaWidgets2 by default, that is probably the reason why you get the error with the per request storage.
To enabled both toscawidgets1 and toscawidgets2 replace the "base_config.prefer_toscawidgets2 = True" line inside config/app_cfg.py with:
base_config.use_toscawidgets = True
base_config.use_toscawidgets2 = True
I'm not sure how much ToscaWidgets1 it's still maintained anyway, you probably want to look for a similar widgets for tw2.