How I set up my Turbogears based development environment...

The start of 2009 brought along a new project for me. It was based on Turbogears 1.0.4.4 with Postgresql 8.3 as the database. Here is a list of steps I followed to setup my development environment.

1. Installed Python 2.4.4.

2. I was working on a windows platform and required support for it so I installed extensions for windows. PyWin32 is a collection of modules for advanced windows-specific support. These include utilities for COM, Win32 API calls, Registry, Event Log and MFC user interfaces.

3. Installed setuptools, so as to be able to build and distribute packages. It includes a utility easy_install, which lets you automatically download, build, install, and manage Python packages and their dependencies.

4. Installed the Turbogears web application framework by running the command:

>easy_install-2.4 -f http://files.turbogears.org/ "TurboGears==1.0.4.4"

5. Installed win-psycopg, a windows port of the psycopg python-postgresql database interface.

6. Installed SQLObject, an Object Relational Manager which provides an object interface to your database, with tables as classes, rows as instances, and columns as attributes. Used the following command to install it:

>easy_install-2.4 "SQLObject==0.10.2"

7. Installed other packages like PyPDF 1.9, ElementTree 1.2.6, ElementTidy and PyLucene for my text based application.

8. Installed TinyMCE 1.0.6, a JavaScript HTML WYSIWYG editor control, using the following command:

>easy_install-2.4 "TurboTinyMCE==1.0.6"

9. Downloaded the ExtJS 2.2 Library. It has some excellent built-in components ready to use.

10. Installed Eclipse 3.2 IDE and added the PyDev plugin using the manual and configured it accordingly.

There I was, ready to play!