Give me some awesome Web2py Tip & Tricks which makes you more productive

Question

I have been working with web2py following its official web2py book and got to learn too many things. But a book never teaches a productive workflow. I would like to know what workflow you people use to increase you productivity and understanding of the framework as a whole.

Ex: I often use Web2py interactive shell to play with database objects and understand how they work.

Ladon

+1 for the web2py interactive shell. It's especially good when used with the -M switch to auto-load the model files. – Glacis

I found this posting, looking for how to work with Web2py interactively. The -M was the secret ingredient... ./web2py.py -M -S AppName – Cordelier

Answer 1

I use Komodo Edit for development and Google App Engine for hosting.

To better understand web2py have a look at the files in gluon/ - for example tools.py is fairly straightforward.

Dermatogen

how do you debug things when you are lost! Komodo edit is a awesome editor but sadly it is not an IDE and Komodo IDE is a commercial product. i use eclipse for debugging. – Ladon

you don't have to use an IDE to be productive – Dermatogen

@hoju, What does gluon mean – Asa