import datetime #<- will be used to set default dates on models from cao_blogr.models.meta import Base #<- we need to import our sqlalchemy metadata from which model classes will inherit from sqlalchemy import ( Column, Integer, Unicode, #<- will provide Unicode field UnicodeText, #<- will provide Unicode text field DateTime, #<- time abstraction field ) from webhelpers2.text import urlify #<- will generate slugs from webhelpers2.date import distance_of_time_in_words #<- human friendly dates class BlogRecord(Base): __tablename__ = 'entries' id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) title = Column(Unicode(255), unique=True, nullable=False) body = Column(UnicodeText, default=u'') body_html = Column(UnicodeText, default=u'') tag = Column(Unicode, default=u'pyramid') topic = Column(Unicode, default=u'blog') created = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.datetime.utcnow) edited = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.datetime.utcnow) @property def slug(self): return urlify(self.title) @property def created_in_words(self): return distance_of_time_in_words(self.created, datetime.datetime.utcnow())