Creating a jifty application

In a shell, you can invoke the following commands (assuming you live on a unix system):

/usr/bin/jifty app --name Name_of_your_app

This command creates a folder skeleton that later holds all files necessary to drive the application. As the name of your app is used as a class name, the app name should start with a CAPITAL letter to conform to usual coding styles.

From now on, you may use the jifty executable inside the bin/ directory of your project tree.

What the directory tree looks alike

A typical application directory consists of the following directories and files:

directory_tree image is not yet shown due to no upload-feature in the moment -- sorry.

Quasi parallel to this directory, there will exist a directory tree holding things under share in the structure above. In this location whose point in the file system is defined at Jifty install-time, all templates, mason components, css and Javascript default files reside. You can think of this directory tree existing as a shadow of your freshly created share directory as a secondary search-path location. In case you override any file on your application's share directory, the default files with the same relative path will get considered no more.