h1. Rich-CMS
A Rails gem (and also plugin) for a pluggable CMS frontend
h2. Introduction
Rich-CMS is a module of E9s ("http://github.com/archan937/e9s":http://github.com/archan937/e9s) which provides a frontend for your CMS content. Please check out an online demo of Rich-CMS at the "Rich-CMS":http://codehero.es/rails_gems_plugins/rich_cms or "E9s":http://codehero.es/rails_gems_plugins/e9s page at "http://codehero.es":http://codehero.es.
h2. Installation
h3. Using Rich-CMS as gem in Rails 3
Add Rich-CMS in @Gemfile@ as a gem dependency:
gem "rich_cms"
Run the following in your console to install with Bundler:
bundle install
h3. Using Rich-CMS as gem in Rails 2
Add Rich-CMS in @environment.rb@ as a gem dependency:
config.gem "rich_cms"
Run the following in your console:
sudo rake gems:install
h2. Use the provided Rails generators
Rich-CMS requires one entity:
For (optional) authentication, Rich-CMS requires one of the following:
Fortunately, Rich-CMS is provided with two Rails generators with which you can generate those entities.
h3. CMS admin
h4. In Rails 3
Run the following in your console:
rails g rich:cms_admin -m
Note: At default, it will create a ("Devise":http://github.com/plataformatec/devise powered) @User@ model, the @CreateUsers@ migration and it will configure your routes.
You can alter the class name as follows:
rails g rich:cms_admin CodeHeroes::User -m
Note: Both generators have the @-m@ or @--migrate@ option which runs @rake db:migrate@ after creating the files.
Using Authlogic
You can use Authlogic by specifying the @-a@ or @--authlogic@ option:
rails g rich:cms_admin CodeHeroes::User -a -m
Note: As mentioned earlier, Devise is the default authentication logic. Having that said, you can explicitly specify Devise with the @-d@ or @--devise@ option.
h4. In Rails 2
Run the following in your console:
script/generate rich_cms_admin -m
Attention: The @Devise@ Rails generator code is (practically) a copy of the "Devise 1.0.9 generator code":https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/tree/v1.0.9/generators/devise. For there are problems calling the original Devise generators in Rails 2. See also this "Stackoverflow issue":http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3366508/couldnt-find-devise-install-generator-rails-2-3-8-devise-1-0-8.
h3. CMS content
h4. In Rails 3
Run the following in your console:
rails g rich:cms_content -m
Note: At default, it will create the @CmsContent@ model and @CreateCmsContents@ migration. You can alter the class name with the following:
rails g rich:cms_content CmsItem -m
h4. In Rails 2
Run the following in your console:
script/generate rich_cms_content -m
In case you have used the Rails generators, you can skip the Create required entities manually section and go straight to Render Rich-CMS in your views.
h2. Create required entities manually
h3. Specify the authentication mechanism
Rich-CMS can be used without an authentication mechanism (which is the default by the way), you just have to open "/cms" in your browser and you are ready to go. But it is common to have authentication and Rich-CMS support "Devise":http://github.com/plataformatec/devise and "Authlogic":http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic.
Provide the authentication logic as a symbol (e.g. @:devise@) and the authenticated class like this:
Rich::Cms::Auth.setup do |config|
config.logic = :devise
config.klass = "User"
end
The following specifications are optional as Rich-Cms uses defaults:
h3. Register CMS content
Every type of content is identified with its correspending CSS selector (used by the jQuery based Javascript module of Rich-CMS). You will have to provide some specifications:
The following specifications are optional as Rich-Cms uses defaults:
Rich::Cms::Engine.register(".cms_content", {:class_name => "Cms::StaticContent"})
Rich::Cms::Engine.register(".i18n" , {:class_name => "Translation", :key => [:key, :locale], :before_edit => "Rich.I18n.beforeEdit", :after_update => "Rich.I18n.afterUpdate"})
h2. Render Rich-CMS in your views
h3. Alter your layout
Add the following line at the beginning of the @
@ tag:
<%= rich_cms %>
...
h3. Use the Rich-CMS helper method
Rich-CMS requires a rendered DOM element provided with meta data of the content instance. Fortunately, you can call a helper method to render Rich-CMS content tags. Just specify the identifier of the content type and the key of the CMS content instance in question:
>> key = "test_content"
=> "test_content"
>> rich_cms_tag(".cms_content", key)
=> "Hello world!"
When using a combined key for content identification, just call it as follows:
>> rich_cms_tag(".cms_content", {:key => key, :locale => I18n.locale})
=> "Hallo wereld!"
Note: In this case, the content was registered with @Rich::Cms::Engine.register(".cms_content", {:class_name => "Cms::StaticContent", :key => [:key, :locale]})@
The helper method is provided with the following options:
...
<%= rich_cms_tag ".cms_content", "test_content", :as => :html %>
<%= rich_cms_tag ".cms_content", {:key => "test_content", :locale => I18n.locale} %>
...
h3. Rich-CMS in your browser
Open "http://localhost:3000/cms":http://localhost:3000/cms, log in and start managing CMS content.
h2. Customizing the after update implementation
The @update@ action response of @Rich::CmsController@ is provided with "JSON":http://www.json.org data regarding the updated content item. The response will be passed to the @after_update@ Javascript function. Its default JSON data:
{"__selector__": ".cms_content", "__identifier__": {"key": "test_paragraph"}, "value": "Hello world!"}
Note: @selector@ and @identifier@ are always provided in the JSON data.
When specifying a custom after update Javascript function, you probably want to acquire more information than provided in the default JSON data. You can customize this by defining the @to_rich_cms_response@ method in the CMS content model class:
class Translation < ActiveRecord::Base
def to_rich_cms_response(params)
{:value => value, :translations => Hash[*params[:derivative_keys].split(";").uniq.collect{|x| [x, x.t]}.flatten]}
end
end
The JSON data provided will look like:
{"__selector__": ".i18n", "__identifier__": {"locale": "nl", "key": "word.user"}, "value": "gebruiker", "translations": {"users": "gebruikers"}}
h2. Contact me
For support, remarks and requests please mail me at "paul.engel@holder.nl":mailto:paul.engel@holder.nl.
h2. Credit
This Rails gem / plugin depends on:
jQuery
"http://jquery.com":http://jquery.com
Devise (optional)
"http://github.com/plataformatec/devise":http://github.com/plataformatec/devise
AuthLogic (optional)
"http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic":http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic
SASS
"http://sass-lang.com":http://sass-lang.com
Jzip
"http://codehero.es/rails_gems_plugins/jzip":http://codehero.es/rails_gems_plugins/jzip
"http://github.com/archan937/jzip":http://github.com/archan937/jzip
RaccoonTip
"http://codehero.es/jquery_libraries/raccoon_tip":http://codehero.es/jquery_libraries/raccoon_tip
"http://github.com/archan937/raccoon_tip":http://github.com/archan937/raccoon_tip
SeatHolder
"http://codehero.es/jquery_libraries/seat_holder":http://codehero.es/jquery_libraries/seat_holder
"http://github.com/archan937/seat_holder":http://github.com/archan937/seat_holder
CLEditor
"http://premiumsoftware.net/cleditor/index.html":http://premiumsoftware.net/cleditor/index.html
h2. Contributors
Mark Mulder - "@bitterzoet":http://twitter.com/bitterzoet - "http://ikbenbitterzoet.com":http://ikbenbitterzoet.com Stephan Kaag - "@stephankaag":http://twitter.com/stephankaag - "http://hollandonrails.nl":http://hollandonrails.nl Jeroen Bulters – "@bulters":http://twitter.com/bulters – "http://bulte.rs":http://bulte.rs Chris Obdam - "@chrisobdam":http://twitter.com/chrisobdam - "http://holder.nl":http://holder.nl
h2. ToDo's
h2. Enrichments
The all-in-one gem at - "http://codehero.es/rails_gems_plugins/e9s":http://codehero.es/rails_gems_plugins/e9s - "http://github.com/archan937/e9s":http://github.com/archan937/e9s
h3. E9s modules
h2. License
Copyright (c) 2010 Paul Engel, released under the MIT license
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