TurboGears2 Documentation

This section covers documentation about getting started with TurboGears2.

The following chapters cover the most common features of TurboGears, introductions to them and some intermediate features.

• Request Dispatching & Controllers
  • Basic Dispatch
  • Index and Catch-All pages
  • Exposing Templates
  • SubControllers And The URL Hierarchy
  • Passing Parameters To The Controller
• Templating
  • Explicit Engine in Exposition
  • Template Variables
• Kajiki Template Language
  • Template Directives
  • Converting Genshi Templates to Kajiki
• Scaffolding
  • Creating new Controllers, Models and Templates
  • Creating All Together
  • Creating Packages
• Parameters Validation
  • Validating Parameters
  • The Error Handler
  • Validating Forms
  • Validators
• Flash & Alert Messages
  • Default Setup
  • Storing Flash Messages
  • Caching with Flash Messages
  • Customizing Flash
• Widgets & Forms
  • Widgets
  • Forms
• Access Control and Authorization
  • How authentication and authorization is set up by default
  • Restricting access with tg.predicates
• Pagination in TurboGears
  • Paginate Decorator
  • Advanced Pagination
• Web Session
  • Why Use Sessions?
  • How To Use Sessions?
  • Avoid automatic session extension
• Caching
  • Application-level Caching
  • Template Caching
  • HTTP-Level Caching
• Internationalization And Localization
  • Language Auto-Select
  • Forcing a Language
  • Making your code international
  • An i18n Quick Start
  • Commands
• Writing TurboGears Extensions
  • Creating an Extension
  • Tuning on the Extension
  • The Sample Extension
  • Extensions with models and controllers
• Pluggable Applications with TurboGears
  • Supported Features
  • Mounting a pluggable application
  • Creating Pluggable Applications
• RESTful Requests Dispatching
  • Listing Resources
  • Creating New Items
  • Getting one Item
  • Updating an Existing Item
  • Deleting An Item From Our Resource
  • Nesting Resources With RestControllers
  • Non-RESTful Methods
• Database Schema Migrations
  • Getting Started
  • Creating migrations
  • Applying migrations
  • Keeping your websetup on sync
  • Downgrading your schema
• The GearBox Toolkit
  • QuickStart
  • Setup-App
  • Serve
  • TGShell
  • Adding your own command
• Using MongoDB
  • QuickStarting with MongoDB
  • Working With Ming
  • Defining Your Own Collections
  • Handling Relationships
  • Custom Properties
• ObjectDispatch and TGController
  • Dispatching Entry Points
  • The Default Method
  • The Lookup Method
  • Subclassing Controllers
  • Mount Points and Dispatch
• Testing with TurboGears
  • Running Tests
  • Writing Tests
  • Coverage
• The Configuration System
  • Configuration Process
  • Template Rendering Config Settings
• Identification & Authentication Layer
  • How it works in TurboGears
  • Customizing authentication and authorization
  • Disabling authentication and authorization
• Hooks and Wrappers
  • Hooks
  • Controller Wrappers
  • Application Wrappers