for some reason shell forgets settings, this works around temporarily fixes the problem, thanks Vladyslav Kozlovskyy

gluon/compileapp.py

@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ def build_environment(request, response, session, store_current=True):
     """
     Build the environment dictionary into which web2py files are executed.
     """
-
+    
     environment = {}
     for key in html.__all__:
         environment[key] = getattr(html, key)