What you will know after you finish this tutorial

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

Pyramid_blogr makes some initial assumptions:

• Will use alchemy scaffold with SQLAlchemy as its ORM layer
• Mako templates will be our choice for templating engine
• URL dispatch will be the default way for our view resolution
• A single user in database will be created in setup phase
• Will perform a simple authentication of the user
• Authenticated user will be able to make blog entries
• The entries will be listed from newest to oldest one
• We will use webhelpers package for pagination
• WTForms form library will provide form validation

This tutorial was originally created by Marcin Lulek, developer, freelancer and founder of https://errormator.com.

Documentation links

• Pyramid : http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/1.3-branch/
• Mako templates : http://www.makotemplates.org/
• SQLAlchemy : http://www.sqlalchemy.org/
• Webhelpers : http://webhelpers.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
• WTForms : http://wtforms.simplecodes.com

The complete sourcecode for this application is available at:

https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_blogr