ClueBin 0.2

Overview

ClueBin is a pastebin application built as a wsgi application. ClueBin currently has datastore backends for Google App Engine (BigTable) and SQLAlchemy.

See the live version at:

http://cluebin.appspot.com

Dependencies

• (required) Python 2.5+

• (optional) SQLAlchemy: only required if you want SQL-based datastore support

• (optional) Google Apps SDK: only required if deployed on the Google App Engine

Installation

ClueBin was designed to be installed using standard easy_install methods. A simple “easy_install ClueBin” should suffice. This should generate a new script called cluebin.

Usage

ClueBin was designed to be a pluggable WSGI app. The factory for this app is cluebin.pastebin.PasteBin.

To setup ClueBin within it’s own constrained directory try using virtualenv from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/1.0 Once virtualenv is installed do this:

$ virtualenv cluebinenv
$ cd cluebinenv
$ ./bin/easy_install SQLAlchemy
$ ./bin/easy_install ClueBin

To use ClueBin in stand-alone mode, run the cluebin script. See the help usage for standard information.

$ ./bin/cluebin -h

Here is an example of running ClueBin against a local foo.db sqlite db. Make sure your local PYTHONPATH includes both SQLAlchemy and python SQLite bindings.

$ ./bin/cluebin -s cluebin.sqldata.SqlPasteDataStore sqlite:///foo.db True

The -s option takes some random datastore factory name. All extra arguments are passed as arguments to the factory call. For the sql based datastore the current arguments are “db-uri” and an optional second argument to determine if the base schema should be auto-created.

Credits

• Rocky Burt (maintainer) - rocky AT serverzen DOT com

• Nate Aune - natea AT jazkarta DOT com

v0.2 (2008-05-07)

• Added cmd-line execution mode for cluebin.pastebin so that by default it will serve a local http server with the pastebin app

• Now has sql support in addition to google support via sqlalchemy

• Added line numbers for pastes

• Changed google data usage of ‘paste’ from StringProperty to TextProperty for data of limitless size

• Language/lexer selection is now available (don’t have to use auto-detection)

• Stores last-used language and name in cookies

v0.1 (2008-05-03)

• got Google BigTable backend working