On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:23:06PM -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
Any recommended books or tutorials or other good ways to get started with TurboGears--beyond the tutorials at http://docs.turbogears.org/ ? The book by Mark Ramm, etc. gets really mixed reviews at Amazon.
I personally found Mark's TG book to be a great read, even though it contains many typos. It'll give you a good understanding of how TurboGears is put together, and the components used (kid, SQLObject, CherryPy) in the book will be supported for a long time.
However, TurboGears 1.1 is coming out soon, which replaces a lot of the default components: kid->genshi, SQLObject->SQLAlchemy, TG Widgets->ToscaWidgets. For someone wanting to learn TurboGears, I highly recommend diving into the 1.1 stack (which can already used in any 1.0 application already).
There are a couple of SQLAlchemy books that are supposed to hit the shelves next month. One by Mark Ramm and one of the SQLAlchemy developers, and an O'Reilly one (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516147/).
Good luck!
luke