> Maybe I'm just not getting it, but this looks really complicated for
> what it's trying to achieve (not the fault of the OP but more so because
> of the paste config stuff).

> serioiusly, why not just have

> appconfig.py
> dburi = 'postgres://user:password@localhost/db'

> database.py
> import appconfig.py
> engine = create_engine(appconfig.dburi)
> # tables defined here

> model.py
> import database
> #model classes defined here
> model.meta.connect(database.engine)

> Then if you need to use any of this in a script, it's as simple as importing any of these modules into your script. Just plain python. Nothing special.

> Huy

> > Hello,

> > I just wasted around 5 hours trying to figure out how to run a job
> > that would use pylons models/config.  I finally did it so I'm
> > submitting this script here and hoping that it will be somehow
> > integrated into pylons and the documentation.  I hope that as a result
> > it will save other peoples time and make pylons a better experience.

> > Regards,

> > from sqlalchemy import *
> > import leisurenow.models as model
> > from paste.deploy import appconfig, config, CONFIG
> > import sys

> > config_file = sys.argv[1]
> > package = sys.argv[2]
> > func = sys.argv[3]

> > conf = appconfig('config:'+config_file)
> > conf.update(dict(app_conf=conf.local_conf,
> > global_conf=conf.global_conf))
> > CONFIG.push_process_config(conf)
> > if not conf.has_key('sqlalchemy.dburi'):
> >      raise KeyError("No sqlalchemy database config found!")
> > print "Connecting to database %s..."%repr(conf['sqlalchemy.dburi'])
> > engine = create_engine(conf['sqlalchemy.dburi'])
> > model.meta.connect(engine)

> > pkg = __import__(package, globals(), locals(), [func])
> > getattr(pkg, func)()