A Simple Project Management Tool With TurboGears – Templates

We have created our models, created our controller actions and forms. Now we are going to set up our templates. Let’s take a look at the controller action “new_project”:

@expose('ideas.templates.new_project')
def new_project(self):
    """ Displays the project form. """
    return dict(project_form=project_form)

In this action, we tell TurboGears that when new_project action is called, we are going to render it with “new_project.mak” file in the “templates” folder. We also pass “project_form” variable to the template.

Let’s create our templates. This is the content of new_project.mak:

<!-- ideas/templates/new_project.mak -->
<%inherit file="local:templates.master"/>

<%def name="title()">Project Form</%def>

${project_form()|n}

This is the content of new_task.mak:

<!-- ideas/templates/new_task.mak -->
<%inherit file="local:templates.master"/>

<%def name="title()">Task Form</%def>

${task_form()|n}

And this is the content of show_project.mak:

<!-- ideas/templates/show_project.mak -->
<%inherit file="local:templates.master"/>

<%def name="title()">${project.project_name}</%def>

<h1>${project.project_name}</h1>
<div>${project.project_description}</div>

<h2>Tasks</h2>
<ul>
    % for task in tasks:
        <li>${task.task_name}</li>
    % endfor 
</ul>

Now start your web server and visit “http://127.0.0.1:8080/new_project” and see how the project creation form looks like:

And let’s head to task creation page at “http://127.0.0.1:8080/new_task“:

Go ahead and play with it. Do something yourself. For more on the templates you can visit mako documentation.