wiki:EggCookingTutorial

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Egg Cooking Tutorial

  1. Egg cooking
    1. Required items
    2. Directories
    3. Main plugin
    4. Make it a module
    5. Make it an egg
    6. First deployment
    7. Aftermath
  2. Cook even better eggs
    1. Adding template
    2. Tell Trac where the template is
    3. Copy template to egg
    4. Building and deploying
    5. Aftermath
  3. Cooking high-end eggs
    1. Important thing to check
    2. More directories
    3. Style is everything
    4. Image tells more than thousand words
    5. Egg grows
    6. Tell it to Trac
    7. Remember to load stylesheet
    8. Complete version of code
    9. Back to images
    10. Compilation and deployment
    11. Aftermath

How to cook eggs for Trac

Description

Since Trac 0.9 it is possible to write plugins for Trac to extend Trac's 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 an 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