ps.bob

ps.bob provides several mr.bob template to generate packages for Propertyshelf projects.

To create a package like ps.diazo.example:

$ mrbob ps.bob:plone_theme

Available Templates

The templates provided by ps.bob are categorized as follows:

• Plone and Diazo Packages
• Zope Packages (planned)
• Pyramid Packages (planned)
• MLS Packages (planned)

Plone and Diazo Packages

plone_theme

A installable diazo theme for Plone.

Options

On creating a package you can choose from the following options. The default value is in [square brackets].

plone_theme

Name of the Theme [Example Theme]

Should be something like 'Example Theme'.

Package Name of the Theme [example]

Should be something like 'example'.

Features

Package created with ps.bob use the current best-practices when creating an addon.

Plone and Diazo Packages

Buildout

The packages are contained in a buildout that allow you to build Plone with the new package installed for testing-purposes.

Locales

The packages register a directory for locales.

Profile

The packages contain a Generic Setup Profile that installs a browserlayer.

Setuphandler

The packages contain a setuphandlers.py where you can add code that is executed on installing the package.

Template-Overrides

The packages register the folder template_overrides as a directory where you can drop template-overrides using z3c.jbot.

Tests

The packages come with a test setup and some tests for installing the package. They also contain a robot-test for browser testing. The buildouts also contains a config to allow testing the package on travis.

Compatibility

Addons created with ps.bob are tested to work in Plone 4.3.x. They should also work with other versions but that was not tested.

Installation

Use in a buildout

[buildout]
parts += mrbob

[mrbob]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs =
    mr.bob
    ps.bob

If you want to use the latest development version from GitHub, add ps.bob to your mr.developer source section:

[buildout]
extensions += mr.developer

[sources]
ps.bob = git git://github.com/propertyshelf/ps.bob.git

This creates a mrbob-executeable in your bin-directory. Call it from the src-directory of your project like this.:

$ ../bin/mrbob ps.bob:plone_theme

Installation in a virtualenv

You can also install ps.bob in a virtualenv.:

$ pip install ps.bob

You can also install the latest version of ps.bob directly from GitHub:

$ pip install -e git://github.com/propertyshelf/ps.bob.git#egg=ps.bob

Now you can use it like this:

$ mrbob ps.bob:plone_theme