pasttle 0.10.0

Description:

pasttle 0.10.0

Overview
Pasttle is based upon http://sprunge.us, born out of the necessity to:

Have a lightweight pastebin software
Not depend on Google AE
Paste via CLI

Also, I wanted to play more with http://bottlepy.org
Pasttle is split in server and client, it depends on what you are trying to
use to run one or the other.

Server: Runs on python and needs a database (defaults to using SQLite) to
store all the data. You want this if you are setting your own private
pasttle instance
Client: Entirely written in bash. These are just thin wrappers around curl,
you can use this to post to a pasttle server



Installing/Upgrading pasttle-server

Note
If you are upgrading pasttle-server, you’d do well in reading CHANGELOG.rst
first so you make sure the version you are upgrading has any additional
steps.

Pasttle is part of PyPI, you can just:
pip install pasttle
… and it should pull all the necessary components. Whether you want to install
it in a virtual environment (which I recommend) or system-wide is totally up
to you.
If you instead want to try from source code (i.e. by cloning the git repo)
then I suggest you execute:
python setup.py install
… and be done with it. Again, if you do this in a virtual environment or
not is up to you.
In either case, if you want to add any other database drivers on top of the
shipped SQLite driver, you need to install it separately depending on what
method you used to install pasttle to begin with.


Running the server
Once you have it installed you need a database and (optionally) a different
WSGI runner (bottle, which pasttle runs on top of, runs on wsgiref by default)
but can run on Paste, tornado, CherryPy, and several others.
Also, since pasttle uses SQLAlchemy as the backend, you have your pick of any
database that SQLAlchemy supports: SQLite (the default), MySQL and Postgres
being the most famous.
Once you have your database all setup, you just need to create a pasttle.ini
(like the one in the repo) and change the values to whatever matches your
environment.
After that:
pasttle-server.py
Should start the server. If you want to use a different config file, just set
the environment variable PASTTLECONF to the file you want to read before
starting the server, like this:
export PASTTLECONF=/etc/pasttle/mypasttle.ini
pasttle-server.py
# optionally, specify a different config section, e.g. [development]
export PASTTLECONF=/etc/pasttle/mypasttle.ini:development
pasttle-server.py
Alternatively, an uWSGI configuration is provided in the .ini file.
Here is a script to run the server with virtualenv option:
#!/usr/bin/sh

if [ -n "$VIRTUAL_ENV" ]; then
OPT="-H $VIRTUAL_ENV"
fi

exec uwsgi pasttle.ini --plugin python $OPT

Available configuration options
[main]
debug: <true/false> [default=true]
bind: <address> [default=localhost]
port: <port> [default=9669]
title: <title>
wsgi: <wsgi server to use> [default=wsgiref]
pool_recycle: <db connection age> [default=3600]
recent_items: <number to show on main page> [default=20]
pygments_style: <coloration theme> [default=tango]

Note

pool_recycle
See documentation of sqlalchemy.create_engine for details

wsgi
WSGI server to use, look at bottle.server_names for the list



import bottle
print(bottle.server_names.keys())
['cgi', 'gunicorn', 'cherrypy', 'eventlet', 'tornado', 'geventSocketIO', 'rocket', 'diesel', 'twisted', 'wsgiref', 'fapws3', 'bjoern', 'gevent', 'meinheld', 'auto', 'flup', 'gae', 'paste', 'waitress']



Running the client
Running the client just requires 2 steps:

Source pasttle.bashrc
Run pasttle -h or gettle -h to check usage