Turbogears and Genshi baby steps

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

These are the baby steps for using Genshi template system in Turbogears.

1 - In case you have not installed Genshi do....
easy_install Genshi

2 - Create a new turbogears project with...
tg-admin quickstart genshibasic

3 - Go to controllers.py in ./genshibasic/genshibasic directory

add this to the Root class


@expose(template="genshi:genshibasic.templates.genshi")
def genshi(self):
return dict(pretty="basic")


4 - create a new template file ( genshi.html ) in the templates directory of the project.

include this in genshi.html ...

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/"
lang="en">
pretty ${pretty}
</html>

5 - Start your project with

python start-genshibasic.py


6 - Open your browser and type http://localhost:8080/genshi

Enjoy!
The rest is to study carefully genshi documentation to be a black belt.