ptah 0.8.0

Requirements

• Python 2.6+ or Python 3.2+

• virtualenv

Note for Windows Users

On Windows virtualenv/bin will be virtualenv/Scripts besides this difference everything else below is the same.

Grab the release

If you do not want to faff about with source, cloning repos, etc. Just grab the latest released version of ptah.

$ /path/to/virtualenv/bin/pip install ptah

Ptah from source

If you want the latest and greatest you need to grab code from source.

clone ptah from github and then install it:

$ /path/to/virtualenv/bin/python setup.py develop

then run the tests:

$ /path/to/virtualenv/bin/python setup.py test

An empty project

Let’s generate a empty project using the ptah_starter scaffolding. You can start from there:

/path/to/virtualenv $ bin/pcreate -t ptah_starter myapp
/path/to/virtualenv $ cd myapp
/path/to/virtualenv/myapp $ ../bin/python setup.py develop
/path/to/virtaulenv/myapp $ ../bin/pserve settings.ini --reload

Open your browser to http://localhost:6543/ if you want examples that do more such as demonstrating editing models and authentication. Check out the examples.

Examples

There are several example applications ready for you to install and see Ptah in action. You can find them in the examples repository at github.

https://github.com/ptahproject/examples

Support and Documentation

Ptahproject google groups/mailing list, Ptahproject Google Groups

On irc, use the freenode network and find us on channels, #ptahproject and #pyramid.

Documentation can be found in docs directory. You can also see it online at http://ptahproject.readthedocs.org/

Report bugs at Ptahproject @ Github

Known Issues

On some versions of Ubuntu you may get Python 2.7 exiting stating it has “Aborted.” There is a bug in ctypes on that particular Ubuntu platform.

License

Ptah is offered under the BSD3 license.

Features

• Added ptah.enable_modules setting, list of enabled management modules.

• Require alembic 0.1.1

Bug fixes

• Encode content-type header for blob data rest action

• Do not use request for application factories in applications rest action. It brakes security for current root object.

Bug fixes

• Check migration version information only if sqla has been configured.

• Run ptah.shutdown() before exit from process.

Features

• Added voc_factory attribute to VocabularyField

Bug fixes

• Stop process if current revisions are different from head revisions.

• Execute POPULATE_DB_SCHEMA populate step instead of all populate steps during migration.

Features

• Added data migration subsystem. It is documented in the “Data migration” chapter.

• Added data population subsystem. It is documented in the “Data population” chapter.

• Added a ptah-migrate script. It is documented in the “Command-Line utilities” chapter.

• Added a ptah-populate script. It is documented in the “Command-Line utilities” chapter.

• Added a default_roles setting. It defines list of roles for principal.

• Its possible to start ptah without database.

• Added json dict column ptah_nodes.annotations.

• Removed ptah_content table columns, view, creators, subjects, publisher, contributors.

Bug Fixes

• MySQL Compatibility #116