bobtemplates.niteoweb 0.1.2

Global settings

Some answers to bob’s questions can be pre-filled based on global configuration so you don’t have to answer them every time. You can store this configuration either on you local computer, or if you are working in a team, somewhere online. We, at NiteoWeb Ltd., for example, have these answers always available for us at http://www.niteoweb.com/mrbob.ini.

Creating a Plone add-on package

To create a Plone add-on first install (or upgrade to latest) mr.bob and the bobtemplates.niteoweb package and then run mrbob:

$ easy_install -U mr.bob
$ easy_install -U bobtemplates.niteoweb
$ mrbob --config ~/.mrbob.ini -O collective.foo bobtemplates:plone

Then answer some questions:

Welcome to mr.bob interactive mode. Before we generate directory structure,
some questions need to be answered.

Answer with a question mark to display help.
Value in square brackets at the end of the questions present default value
if there is no answer.


--> Name of the package: foo
(namespace is already set in the ~/.mrbob.ini)

...

And your package is ready! Let’s build the development environment and see if all tests pass:

$ cd collective.foo
$ make

Great, you are now set to start Zope in foreground mode: bin/instance fg. Once Zope is up, point your browser to http://localhost:8080, login as admin:admin, create a new Plone site while selecting collective.foo from the list of Add-ons and voilá: a Plone site with your very own add-on installed.

Now you can add some customizations to views and templates, or maybe write some CSS and JS.