Merge branch 'master' of github.com:Pylons/pyramid

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst b/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst
index e8874784c..6d6287126 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst
+++ b/docs/tutorials/wiki2/basiclayout.rst
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ The starter files generated by the ``alchemy`` scaffold are very basic, but
 they provide a good orientation for the high-level patterns common to most
 :term:`url dispatch` -based :app:`Pyramid` projects.
 
-The source code for this tutorial stage can be browsed at
-`http://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/tree/1.3-branch/docs/tutorials/wiki2/src/basiclayout/
-<http://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/tree/1.3-branch/docs/tutorials/wiki2/src/basiclayout/>`_.
 
 Application Configuration with ``__init__.py``
 ----------------------------------------------
@@ -46,9 +43,9 @@ above is executed.  It accepts some settings and returns a :term:`WSGI`
 application.  (See :ref:`startup_chapter` for more about ``pserve``.)
 
 The main function first creates a :term:`SQLAlchemy` database engine using
-``engine_from_config`` from the ``sqlalchemy.`` prefixed settings in the
-``development.ini`` file's ``[app:main]`` section.  This will be a URI
-(something like ``sqlite://``):
+:func:`sqlalchemy.engine_from_config` from the ``sqlalchemy.`` prefixed
+settings in the ``development.ini`` file's ``[app:main]`` section.
+This will be a URI (something like ``sqlite://``):
 
    .. literalinclude:: src/basiclayout/tutorial/__init__.py
       :lines: 13
@@ -135,11 +132,11 @@ Finally, ``main`` is finished configuring things, so it uses the
 View Declarations via ``views.py``
 ----------------------------------
 
-Mapping a :term:`route` to code that will be executed when a match for
-the route's pattern occurs is done by registering a :term:`view
-configuration`. Our application uses the
-:meth:`pyramid.view.view_config` decorator to map view callables to
-each route, thereby mapping URL patterns to code.
+Arguably, the main function of a web framework is mapping each URL
+patterns, see :term:`route`, to code, see :term:`view callable`, that is 
+executed when the requested URL matches the corresponding :term:`route`. Our 
+application uses the :meth:`pyramid.view.view_config` decorator to perform 
+this mapping.
 
 Open ``tutorial/tutorial/views.py``.  It should already contain the following:
 
@@ -229,13 +226,12 @@ To give a simple example of a  model class, we define one named ``MyModel``:
       :linenos:
       :language: py
 
-Our example model has an ``__init__`` method that takes a two arguments
+Our example model has an ``__init__`` method that takes two arguments
 (``name``, and ``value``).  It stores these values as ``self.name`` and
-``self.value``
-within the ``__init__`` function itself.  The ``MyModel`` class also has a
-``__tablename__`` attribute.  This informs SQLAlchemy which table to use to
-store the data representing instances of this class.
+``self.value`` within the ``__init__`` function itself.  The ``MyModel`` class 
+also has a ``__tablename__`` attribute.  This informs SQLAlchemy which table 
+to use to store the data representing instances of this class.
 
-That's about all there is to it to models, views, and initialization code in
+That's about all there is to it with models, views, and initialization code in
 our stock application.