bms

Brand Management System - it's basecamp for ya brand.

v1.0 outcomes

1. Better tool for scaffolding & deploying client brandguides
2. Sales brochure for sending to prospective clients

Schedule

Sunday 6th April - Prototype for new server setup + functionality complete.

Sunday 27th April - Design work, example brandguides & brochure site complete.

Who's it for?

The initial product is really just a nice to have deliverable for our branding clients & prospective clients. The app at this stage is for us, helping make our process more efficient and impressive to clients.

Technology / functionality

Deployment:

• Single heroku server
• deployed via git

Access:

• Brandguides on simple urls eg: brand.brandguide.io
• Login required to access each guide (password), OR…
• Login to account, access to multiple guides

Features:

• Download files + bundled zips
• Email a unique url to a file, or bundle of files
• Update text content via admin panel
• Upload files via admin panel

Development

How to set up your local development environment, after cloning the repository.

1. bundle
2. npm install
3. rake db:reset
4. rake assets:clobber
5. bundle exec guard

If pow has been installed and linked (try powder link), the server will be running and accessible at http://brandguide.dev/.

Possible errors

I had to install the pg gem manually with the following command, pretty sure it was a mavericks bug:

gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin/pg_config

Production

First, add the Heroku remote repository

git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:idealogue-bms.git

Assets must be precompiled for Heroku depolyment. Run rake assets:bundle and then git commit the resulting files before pushing to Heroku.

When ready to push changes to the production site, just git push heroku master.

Don't pull from the heroku remote. Pull any code changes made by other collaborators from the github (origin) remote.