The book is online https://github.com/web2py/web2py-book
You can fork it edit it, then submit a PR. You should be able to do 
everything online.

Massimo

On Friday, 4 August 2017 10:43:14 UTC-5, CDA wrote:
>
> I'll be more than happy to assist. How do I start?
>
> On Aug 4, 2017 11:34 AM, "Massimo Di Pierro" <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Can I ask for some help in editing the book. specifically:
>>
>> 1) describe {{=ASSIGNJS(js_var = python_var)}}
>>
>> 2) new syntax to store .table files in DB itself instead of in the 
>> filesystem (works with any DB)
>>
>>     from gluon import DAL, Field
>>
>>     from gluon.dal import InDBMigrator
>>
>>     db = DAL(uri, adapter_args=dict(migrator=InDBMigrator))
>>
>> 3) new syntax to connect to MySQL and Potgresql on GAE
>>
>> Follow instructions 
>> https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/using-cloud-sql 
>> then use DAL//web2py URI:
>>
>>
>> "google:MySQLdb://username:password@/dbname?unix_socket=/cloudsql/projectname:dbzone
>> :dbinstancename"
>>
>>
>> "google:psycopg2://username:password@/dbname?unix_socket=/cloudsql/projectname:dbzone
>> :dbinstancename"
>>
>> In this case the adapter_args=dict(migrator=InDBMigrator)) is the default 
>> behavior. 
>>
>> 4) If you need to select lots of data and you do not want web2py to parse 
>> it into object but get the raw data as returned by the DB as a list of 
>> tuples:
>>
>> rows = db(query).select(processor=lambda *a,**b: a[0])
>>
>> -- 
>> Resources:
>> - http://web2py.com
>> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation)
>> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code)
>> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues)
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Resources:
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- http://web2py.com/book (Documentation)
- http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code)
- https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues)
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