Accelerated Pylons Dev with BlastOff Chris Miles Melbourne Python User Group Oct 2009 Image by lecates @ flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 Wednesday, 14 October 2009 

What is BlastOff? A Pylons application boilerplate as a PasteScript template Similar to the Pylons default application template but pre- configured with more functionality Wednesday, 14 October 2009 

Pylons Template SQLAlchemy 0.5 ORM support mako template support Routes dispatching Sessions Caching Custom error handling Static file serving Wednesday, 14 October 2009 

BlastOff Template Pylons template, including mako & SQLAlchemy Authentication using repoze.who ToscaWidgets middleware User registration form using ToscaWidgets (tw.forms) Email confirmation for new user accounts (optional) Wednesday, 14 October 2009 

BlastOff Template TurboMail 3.0 for email support WebFlash for “flash” messages Default user creation (optional) Database schema version control using SchemaBot (optional) Wednesday, 14 October 2009 

BlastOff Template Database administration interface using RUM (optional) (not yet released) Model unit tests Functional tests Wednesday, 14 October 2009 

Installation easy_install BlastOff Verify: $ paster create --list-templates Available templates: blastoff: A Pylons template pylons: Pylons application pylons_minimal: Pylons minimal […] Wednesday, 14 October 2009 

Usage $ paster create -t blastoff BOTest Selected and implied templates: BlastOff#blastoff A Pylons template providing a working site skeleton configured with SQLAlchemy, mako, repoze.who, ToscaWidgets and SchemaBot. Variables: egg: BOTest package: botest project: BOTest Enter sqlalchemy_url (The SQLAlchemy URL of the database) ['sqlite:///%(here)s/ development.db']: Enter use_schemabot (Enable database schema version control using SchemaBot) [True]: Enter email_confirmation (True/False: New users must click activation link from confirmation email) [True]: Enter rum_admin (True/False: Add database admin interface (using RUM) at /admin) [True]: Enter default_user (Default username to create, password will match username (leave blank for no default user)) ['']: admin Creating template blastoff Creating directory ./BOTest […] Wednesday, 14 October 2009 

Demo Wednesday, 14 October 2009 

Other Pylons Templates Shabti PylonsTemplates See Pylons wiki: http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/ pylonsprojects/Pylons+Project+Templates Wednesday, 14 October 2009 

BlastOff Links Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/BlastOff Source / wiki / issues: http://bitbucket.org/chrismiles/blastoff/ Wednesday, 14 October 2009