CouchDB and Pylons: User Registration and Login

In the previous tutorial, we learned how to get CouchDB and Pylons up and running, as well as create a simple page counter. Now we are going to implement a simple user authentication system. This tutorial will teach you how to use formencode to validate forms and CouchDB to store our user data. Let’s start by creating a new pylons project and some controllers. $ paster create -t pylons userdemo $ cd userdemo $ paster controller main $ paster controller auth Also, delete public/index....

February 21, 2009 · Chris Moos

Python Web Frameworks: 2 Down, 1 to go

On my trial to find the best python web framework(all around), I’ve just finished learning Pylons and experiencing everything it has to offer. Genshi is amazing and kills any text template engine(Django, Mako). SQLAlchemy is much different than Django’s ORM and has its advantages and disadvantages. Django’s ORM feels more natural and is much easier to learn at first. I believe that SQLAlchemy is much more powerful but the learning curve is much bigger....

October 17, 2007 · Chris Moos