gap 0.4.5

Google App Engine project bootstrap

Google App Engine is excellent technology but there is a gap.

If you are missing

• use of pip with Google App Engine,

• cooperation of appengine and virtualenv,

• possibility to add any module to your python path,

then this barebone could be at least an inspiration for you.

How to use (fill) the gap?

Short version

create virtualenv

> pip install gap
> gap start-project <applicationid>
> cd <applicationid>
> appcfg update src

Long version

1. Install Google Appengine SDK

2. Create a virtualenv for you project

3. if necessary easy_install pip

4. run pip install gap

5. Go to directory where you want to create your GAE project.

6. run gap start-project <projectname> # <projectname> will be used as applicationId

7. Add your dependencies to requirements.gip (format is the same as pip requirements file) and run bin/gip install -r requirements.gip

8. or install any packages using bin/gip same way as you are used to do it with pip.

9. To create a new module in your application run gap start-app <module_name>

10. Keep your code inside src/app (see wiki::Pip support <https://github.com/czervenka/gap/wiki/Pip-support> for details).

11. Libraries installed using gip are accessible in dev_server as well as on GAE servers.

See Gap wiki page for more informations.

Any ideas, thoughts, fixes (specially corrections of my English :) are welcome!

Disclaimer

Of course … This code is published in hope that someone will find it useful but it is provided as-is and I can take no responsibility for improper as well as proper use.