WTForms Multiple Select Tutorial

This is a tutorial meant to show the basics of using SQLAlchemy and WTForms to generate a basic registration page. It demos how to use WTForms to add and update a user that is persisted in some tables with a one to many relationship

Windows Directions:

Install virtualenv python -m venv venv Activate venv venv\scripts\activate.bat Install libraries pip install -r requirements Set flask app set flask_app=multiple_select Run app flask run The app allows you to drop the db, create and seed it, add a registered user, update the user with registered_id=1

Directions For Other OS (run at your own risk):

• Install python-virtualenv

  • debian: sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
  • os x: pip install virtualenv

• Install sqlite

  • debian: sudo apt-get install sqlite
  • os x: brew install sqlite3

• Make a virtualenv for flask projects

virtualenv flask
source flask/bin/activate
pip install flask
pip install flask-wtf
pip install flask-sqlalchemy