Welcome to Python On Wheels

What

PythonOnWheels (or short PoW) is a small and quick rapid web application generator framework for Python.
If you to want start to develop your web-application and focus on the App, instead of the framework, you are in the right place.

PythonOnWheels feels right if you do not recognize that you use it.

I like to thank the brilliant ideas and implementations of Ruby on Rails. Patterns and theory were there, but, but rails really brought it to life. I like to keep it simple, though ;)

How

PythonOnWheels doesn't reinvent the wheel but is based on the brilliant frameworks out there. Namely:

• WebOb request, (response) handling.
• SQLAlchemy for Database abstraction,
• Mako as the Template engine
• Beaker for Session handling.
• Bootstrap as base HTML/CSS Framework
• JQuery Javascript / AJAX
• Nose Tests

So if you are building an app on PoW you are relying on the Python standard libs out there.

PoW just brings it all together in a way that you can focus on your app instead of focusing on the frameworks.

...next steps

1. Watch the first-steps Screencast »
2. Watch the weblog in 10 minutes Screencast »
3. Get it from github
4. generate Your first model.generate_model <name>
5. generate Your first controller. generate_controller <name>
6. scaffold your views. generate_scaffold <name>
7. start simple_server.pygo to http://localhost:8080 and enjoy.