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Thomas De Schampheleire

Turbogears2 migration: use sqlalchemy.url iso sqlalchemy.db1.url

In Turbogears2, much of the application initialization is handled by the
framework, whereas in Pylons the application was responsible for it.
Initializing SQLAlchemy is one such part of initialization which is handled
by Turbogears2.

Turbogears2 expects the configuration file to refer to the database using
'sqlalchemy.url' rather than the current 'sqlalchemy.db1.url'. While the
exact name is not really important, not following this approach means we'll
need to override the sqlalchemy initialization method.

Therefore, as a preparation to the Turbogears2 migration, already change the
database reference string under Pylons.
When upgrading to a version of Kallithea containing this commit, the .ini
file will manually need to be adapted to remove the .db1 strings.

.. _customization:

=============
Customization
=============

There are several ways to customize Kallithea to your needs depending on what
you want to achieve.


HTML/JavaScript/CSS customization
---------------------------------

To customize the look-and-feel of the web interface (for example to add a
company banner or some JavaScript widget or to tweak the CSS style definitions)
you can enter HTML code (possibly with JavaScript and/or CSS) directly via the
*Admin > Settings > Global > HTML/JavaScript customization
block*.


Behavioral customization: rcextensions
--------------------------------------

Some behavioral customization can be done in Python using ``rcextensions``, a
custom Python package that can extend Kallithea functionality.

With ``rcextensions`` it's possible to add additional mappings for Whoosh
indexing and statistics, to add additional code into the push/pull/create/delete
repository hooks (for example to send signals to build bots such as Jenkins) and
even to monkey-patch certain parts of the Kallithea source code (for example
overwrite an entire function, change a global variable, ...).

To generate a skeleton extensions package, run::

    paster make-rcext my.ini

This will create an ``rcextensions`` package next to the specified ``ini`` file.
See the ``__init__.py`` file inside the generated ``rcextensions`` package
for more details.


Behavioral customization: code changes
--------------------------------------

As Kallithea is open-source software, you can make any changes you like directly
in the source code.

We encourage you to send generic improvements back to the
community so that Kallithea can become better. See :ref:`contributing` for more
details.