What you will know after you finish this tutorial

This tutorial is really simple, but it should give you enough of a head start to writing applications using the Pyramid Web Framework. By the end of it, you should have a basic understanding of templating, working with databases, using URL routes to launch business logic (views), authentication, authorization, using a form library, and usage and pagination of our blog entries.

Pyramid_blogr makes some initial assumptions:

  • We will use Pyramid’s alchemy scaffold with SQLAlchemy as its ORM layer.
  • Jinja2 templates will be our choice for templating engine.
  • URL dispatch will be the default way for our view resolution.
  • A single user in the database will be created during the setup phase.
  • We will perform simple authentication of the user.
  • The authenticated user will be authorized to make blog entries.
  • The blog entries will be listed from newest to oldest.
  • We will use the paginate package for pagination.
  • The WTForms form library will provide form validation.

This tutorial was originally created by Marcin Lulek, developer, freelancer and founder of app enlight.

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