Blog

Create posts and categories, nothing more.

Installation

1. Include gem to the Gemfile

gem 'blog', git: '[email protected]:werein/blog.git'

2. Mount it like Rails engine

mount Blog::Engine => '/blog'

3. Install engine

rails g blog:install

Configuration

You need to specify User class with has_role? method. It determinate if user have access to given action.

Create config/initializers/blog.rb file with following:

Blog.user_class = 'User'

or dummy user class

Blog.user_class = 'Tuberack::DummyUser'

Abilities

Blog has some default abilities

Unauthorized user, user

• show posts, post, category
• nothing else

Admin

• everything

Attributes

On every model can be set different attributes.

Post

• active - if post isn't active, than can't be accessed by user
• image - post ilustration
• categories - can be sorted into multiple categories
• translations - have multiple translations
  • title - post title
  • locale - post language
  • slug - text in url
  • content type - determinate if is used HTML or Markdown file / Remote md file
  • file - uploader for markdown file, which will be parsed into html
  • remote - link to remote makrdown file, wich will be parsed into html
  • html - input HTML directly, ckeditor is used as default WYSIWYG

Category

• parent - tree structure of category
• translations - have multiple translation
  • title - name of translation
  • locale - language of category
  • description - category description

Front-end

Engine provide bootstrap styled view and javascript functions for blog. Just load them in your application.css.sass and application.js.coffee. Plese check requirements.sass/coffee for libraries used in blog engine.

@import blog/app

#= require blog/app

Components

Are parts of application. They can be rendered whatever you want. On each component can specified view. There are list of components and views.

Example

render_cell 'blog/category', :show

Category

• show - find roots categories
• by_name - find category by friendly name (slug)

** Views **

• tree - Show tree of categories, can be used for show

Posts

• show - show latest posts, take :limit as argument
• related - show related categories by given :post