[melbourne-pug] How to go about an aspect of a web app

Rasjid Wilcox rasjidw at openminddev.net
Tue Jan 14 01:29:34 CET 2014


How is you app being deployed?  Is it being run behind a standard 
webserver (eg, Apache), or within a Python based WSGI web-server?  If 
the latter, I would normally just pass in a command line paramater 
pointing either to a config file or perhaps directly to the project 
directory in your case.

On 13/01/2014 8:42 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
> Hey,
>
> A question for the peanut gallery...
>
> I'm writing a flask/bootstrap web app (not open sourced as yet) for 
> doing some scientific processing in a pipeline data processing 
> methodology. I want to write an example pipeline, but then have the 
> app be deployable in user space and use either a configured directory 
> or a dot-prefix directory for the data of that particular instance of 
> the app. I had imagined this could be like a "layer" over the top of 
> the core application layer, so that users could have their projects 
> side-by-side with the core application examples.
>
> I'm now thinking maybe that's a bad idea, and it would be better just 
> to copy the sample projects into the users workspace.
>
> In fact I think I've pretty much convinced myself given it took just 
> one sentence to say and seems immediately clear.
>
> Are there any other paradigms in web apps for managing the application 
> state (other than packing everything into a database)? The data here 
> exists naturally in a fundamentally file-based paradigm, so I think it 
> makes sense to continue that mainly.
>
> Cheers,
> -Tennessee
>
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