doc/index.rst
author Rémi Cardona <remi.cardona@logilab.fr>, Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr>
Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:30:54 +0100
changeset 10935 049209b9e9d6
parent 10503 209738650200
child 11631 faf279e33298
permissions -rw-r--r--
[qunit] stop dealing with filesystem paths qunit tests need a few things served by cubicweb: - qunit itself, which is now handled by CWDevtoolsStaticController (serving files in cubicweb/devtools/data) - standard cubicweb or cubes data files, handled by the DataController - the tests themselves and their dependencies. These can live in <apphome>/data or <apphome>/static and be served by one of the STATIC_CONTROLLERS This avoids having to guess in CWSoftwareRootStaticController where to serve things from (some files may be installed, others are in the source tree), and should hopefully make it possible to have these tests pass when using tox, and to write qunit tests for cubes, outside of cubicweb itself. This requires modifying the tests to only declare URL paths instead of filesystem paths, and moving support files below test/data/static.

=====================================================
|cubicweb| - The Semantic Web is a construction game!
=====================================================

|cubicweb| is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL,
that empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing
components (called `cubes`) and following the well known object-oriented design
principles.

Main Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* an engine driven by the explicit :ref:`data model
  <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationDataModel>` of the application,

* a query language named :ref:`RQL <RQL>` similar to W3C's SPARQL,

* a :ref:`selection+view <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationCustomViews>`
  mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation,

* a library of reusable :ref:`components <Cube>` (data model and views) that
  fulfill common needs,

* the power and flexibility of the Python_ programming language,

* the reliability of SQL databases, LDAP directories, Subversion and Mercurial
  for storage backends.

Built since 2000 from an R&D effort still continued, supporting 100,000s of
daily visits at some production sites, |cubicweb| is a proven end to end solution
for semantic web application development that promotes quality, reusability and
efficiency.

QuickStart
~~~~~~~~~~

The impatient developer will move right away to :ref:`SetUpEnv` then to :ref:`ConfigEnv`.

Social
~~~~~~

*   Chat on the `jabber forum`_
*   Discuss on the `mailing-list`_
*   Discover on the `blog`_
*   Contribute on the forge_


.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/
.. _forge: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/
.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _`jabber forum`: http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/6718
.. _`mailing-list`: http://lists.cubicweb.org/mailman/listinfo/cubicweb
.. _blog: http://www.cubicweb.org/blog/1238


Narrative Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A.k.a. "The Book"

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   book/intro/index

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   tutorials/index
   
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   book/devrepo/index
   book/devweb/index

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   book/admin/index
   book/additionnal_services/index
   book/annexes/index



Changes
~~~~~~~

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   changes/changelog


Reference documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

API
'''

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :glob:

    api/*

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1

    js_api/index

Developpers
~~~~~~~~~~~

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :glob:

    dev/*

Indexes
~~~~~~~

* the :ref:`genindex`,
* the :ref:`modindex`,