Welcome to Spiked

Spiked is a Python web development framework built on a top of Twisted and Cheetah.

Writing applications in Spiked is centered around creating fragments, dynamic portions of your application which in code look like python classes with corresponding Cheetah templates, which are later grouped together into areas and pages. Collection of pages form Spiked application. Having this in mind we could say that Spiked is front-end oriented framework. Spiked also provides facilities for plugging in custom data back-ends.

Instalation

Requirements:

• Twisted you need at least version 8.2.0
• Cheetah
• PyYAML
• simplejson

All you need to do is get Spiked skeleton project. Get it here. After downloading you will want to extract it:

tar zxvf spiked-<version>.tar.gz
mv spiked myproject

Alternatively you might want to check out latest SVN:

svn co http://spiked.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/spiked/trunk myproject

To clean up the 'myproject' directory from unwanted '.svn' entries run:

cd myproject
find . -name .svn | xargs rm -rf

Running Spiked

Running Spiked consists of running two different servers. One is session server and the other is web server. Assuming you are in your 'myproject' directory run fallowing commands:

./ssctl start
./webctl fg

After this you should have session server started and web server started in foreground mode. Point your browser to http://localhost:8000 where Spiked default application is running.

Where to now?

• Try out simple Hello world example!
• About app.yaml
• About pagetypes
• About fragments
• About views
• About skins

Questions and suggestions

milos(dot)negovanovic(at)googlemail(dot)com