Overview

Ringo is a small Python based high level web application framework build with Pyramid. Ringo tries to make it very easy to build form based web application to manage your data. Because ringo provides many basic features which are often used in modern webapplications it greatly speeds up development. But it is also flexible and offers many ways to configure the layout, behaviour and workflow of your application. See the list of Features for more details.

Ringo comes with an application scaffold which can be used as a boilerplate for your application development. See the Development part for more details on how to build a Ringo based application.

License

Ringo is Free Software. It is licensed under the GPL license in version 2 or later. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0 for more details on the license.

Features

Ringo provides some basic features which are useful if you build your web application:

  • Easy extendible and configurable modular architekture,

  • Basic actions for every modul including:
    • Search and sortable listing (storeable and configurable)
    • Basic CRUD actions
    • CSV, JSON import and export
  • Role based authorisation.

  • Authentication with email registration and password reminders

  • Powerfull statemachine to model workflows in moduls.

  • Layout and validation of forms using the Formbar library

  • Internal messenging system

  • Logging of useractions

  • Versioning of forms (see what changed to the last version)

  • Ready to use modules:
    • User Profiles
    • Comments
    • Tags
    • Files
    • Basic Appointments
  • Widely configurable from the web UI.

  • Nice console client for various administration tasks.

  • ...

Installation

Ringo is available in its latest stable version on PyPi:

The source code is also available on Bitbucket if you want to keep track of the latest development version:

Please read the Development section to learn how to setup Ringo based application.

Note

Ringo was developed within a Python 2.7.3 environment. Older versions will not work as Ringo uses some XML features only available in Python >= 2.7.3. Newer versions might work, but it is not tested.

Contact

You can contact the author by his email address “torsten at irlaender dot de”. In case of bugs and feature requests please open a ticket on Bitbucket.

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