wiki:EggCookingTutorial

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How to cook eggs for Trac

Description

Since Trac 0.9 it has been possible to write plugins for Trac to extend Trac functionality. Moreover, you can even deploy plugins as Python eggs that makes plugin development fun.

This four step tutorial shows how to make an egg, successfully load an egg in Trac and in advanced topics how to serve templates and static content from an egg:

Read the tutorials in order. If you run into difficulties editing files, you can download the complete example as a tarball at the end of each step.

Trac 0.11 uses Genshi as the new template engine. Use the EggCookingTutorialTrac0.11 tutorial if you want to cook egg for Trac 0.11. A similar structure has been used there, so that it is easy to follow for those who cooked eggs for earlier versions.

Author/Contributors

Author: rede
Contributors: khundeen