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diff --git a/docs/quick_tutorial/static_assets.rst b/docs/quick_tutorial/static_assets.rst index 61c5fbd50..65b34f8f9 100644 --- a/docs/quick_tutorial/static_assets.rst +++ b/docs/quick_tutorial/static_assets.rst @@ -4,16 +4,17 @@ 13: CSS/JS/Images Files With Static Assets ========================================== -Of course the Web is more than just markup. You need static assets: -CSS, JS, and images. Let's point our web app at a directory where -Pyramid will serve some static assets. +Of course the Web is more than just markup. You need static assets: CSS, JS, +and images. Let's point our web app at a directory where Pyramid will serve +some static assets. Objectives ========== -- Publish a directory of static assets at a URL +- Publish a directory of static assets at a URL. + +- Use Pyramid to help generate URLs to files in that directory. -- Use Pyramid to help generate URLs to files in that directory Steps ===== @@ -37,8 +38,7 @@ Steps .. literalinclude:: static_assets/tutorial/home.pt :language: html -#. Add a CSS file at - ``static_assets/tutorial/static/app.css``: +#. Add a CSS file at ``static_assets/tutorial/static/app.css``: .. literalinclude:: static_assets/tutorial/static/app.css :language: css @@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ Steps .. code-block:: bash - $ $VENV/bin/nosetests tutorial + $ $VENV/bin/$VENV/bin/py.test tutorial/tests.py -q + .... + 4 passed in 0.50 seconds #. Run your Pyramid application with: @@ -57,30 +59,31 @@ Steps #. Open http://localhost:6543/ in your browser and note the new font. + Analysis ======== We changed our WSGI application to map requests under -http://localhost:6543/static/ to files and directories inside a -``static`` directory inside our ``tutorial`` package. This directory -contained ``app.css``. +http://localhost:6543/static/ to files and directories inside a ``static`` +directory inside our ``tutorial`` package. This directory contained +``app.css``. -We linked to the CSS in our template. We could have hard-coded this -link to ``/static/app.css``. But what if the site is later moved under -``/somesite/static/``? Or perhaps the web developer changes the -arrangement on disk? Pyramid gives a helper that provides flexibility -on URL generation: +We linked to the CSS in our template. We could have hard-coded this link to +``/static/app.css``. But what if the site is later moved under +``/somesite/static/``? Or perhaps the web developer changes the arrangement on +disk? Pyramid gives a helper that provides flexibility on URL generation: .. code-block:: html ${request.static_url('tutorial:static/app.css')} -This matches the ``path='tutorial:static'`` in our -``config.add_static_view`` registration. By using ``request.static_url`` -to generate the full URL to the static assets, you both ensure you stay -in sync with the configuration and gain refactoring flexibility later. +This matches the ``path='tutorial:static'`` in our ``config.add_static_view`` +registration. By using ``request.static_url`` to generate the full URL to the +static assets, you both ensure you stay in sync with the configuration and gain +refactoring flexibility later. + -Extra Credit +Extra credit ============ #. There is also a ``request.static_path`` API. How does this differ from |