Learning pyramid (python) and am struggling with the @view_config decorator. Should it just work out of the box?
Question: I am still learning pyramid, and I am at a point where I am trying to learn
how to use decorators. Below is a copy of my test view callable.

    
    
    from pyramid.response import Response
    from pyramid.view import view_config
    from pyramid.renderers import render_to_response
    
    def my_blog(request):
        return {'project':'tricky'}
    
    @view_config( renderer='templates/foo.pt' )
    def foo_blog(request):
        return {'name':'tricky'}
    

From what I can understand about the view_config decorator, it can be used to
set application configurations without actually setting them in the config
file. In the case of this example, I am setting the renderer to be
templates/foo.pt. This does not ever work.

However, if I set renderer in the config file (**init**.py) as such:

    
    
    config.add_route( 'foo_blog' , '/blog/{foo}' ,  view='tricky.views.Blog.blog.foo_blog' renderer='tricky:templates/mytemplate.pt' )
    

it will work.

Am I doing something wrong that is preventing me from being able to use the
decorator. Thanks!


Answer: In order for the configurations added via @view_config to work, you need to
call config.scan() at some point.

