web2py: opening an existing project? How does it work?

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Tim Richardson
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I've been using pycharm 2.7 with several web2py projects.
I've upgraded to pycharm v3 (professional) and reopened a web2py project. I see no evidence that it has recognised a web2py project. Actually, I don't know where I would see that if it was true, but nothing seems different and there is no indication in project prefs. So I then deleted the .idea folder in the project root, and reopened it, but I still don't see any recognition of it as a web2py project.

It's web2py 2.6.4, the latest one.

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Ekaterina Smal
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Hi Tim,

what is your web2py project structure?
Supported scenarios:

1. project_root/ <– project root
    web2py/
     .....
       your_application

2. web2py/ <– project root
    .....
      your_application

3. web2py/
    ...
      your_application/ <– project root


In all that cases web2py references should be resolved and web2py run configuration created.
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Tim Richardson
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Actually, deleting .idea and reopening the project did work. It was expecting something less subtle, like a project type defined somewhere.
When I remove the import of the built in debugging library, the pydev debugger included in pycharm works really well, something I have missed. So it's looking good.
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Jim Steil
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I'm still confused how to get an existing web2py app into a project.  If I create a new project and point to an existing app it seems as though PyCharm wants to make a copy of the source.  Is there a way to point PyCharm at my current applications directory and tell it that this is where all my web2py apps are?
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Tim Richardson
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But I also have an example when it doesn't work. I have a development instance of web2py where the web2py installation is in a folder called web2py_git
Opening applications (ie directories under the applications directory) doesn't see to detect web2py. Is there a way to force a project to be treated as a being in a web2py directory tree?
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Ekaterina Smal
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The only solution now is to open web2py_git directory as project root.
Also, please vote an issue PY-10912 to get notified once it's fixed.
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Ekaterina Smal
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Hi Jim,

please, use File->Open directory... and select your app directory or web2py directory
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Jim Steil
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That is what I am doing, but it didn't work.  Further testing has revealed that it does NOT work if I select the application directory, but does work if I select the web2py directory.
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