= Lines Blog by Opoloo[http://www.opoloo.com]
== Introduction
Lines is a customizable blog framework for rails developers. It aims at making publishing simple and beautiful.
Lines is a very slim, feature-constrained, young publishing platform. It is not wordpress or blogger and it doesn't aspire to be. It needs brains, work, and time to mature. It is a framework for tech-savvies who care about their content with the freedom of full OSS access.
To get an idea of the appearance, see the screenshots below, visit the {Lines Website}[http://lines.opoloo.com], or see it in action at link: http://blog.opoloo.com
== Note for Rails 4 lovers
If you prefer a cutting edge Rails 4 version of Lines, checkout the {rails4 branch}[https://github.com/opoloo/lines/tree/rails4]
== Features & Specifications
=== Features
== Installation
Clone the repository: git clone git@github.com:opoloo/lines.git
Switch into the lines directory: cd lines
There is a installation task that will guide you through the rest of the installation process. Just switch to the 'lines' directory and run: ruby install.rb
If you need some more information or help, you can just follow this readme file.
=== Managing admin users
Currently Lines does not offer a GUI for managing users. Just open a console with 'rails c' and add/change a user manually:
User.create(email: "your@email.com", password: "yoursecret")
u = User.find_by_email('your@email.com') u.email = "new@mail.com" u.password = "newsekret" u.save
=== Adjust database details
To adjust your database details, go to config/database.yml
username: DATABASE_USERNAME
password: DATABASE_PASSWORD
There'll be 3 blocks that contain username & password. Development-, Test- & Production-Database.
If there is no config/database.yml, just copy the config/database.yml.dist like that:
cd config
cp database.yml.dist database.yml
or like this (in case you want to stay in your root directory):
cp config/database.yml.dist config/database.yml
Renaming the config/database.yml.dist to config/database.yml works as well.
=== Google Sitemap
The sitemap_generator gem (https://github.com/kjvarga/sitemap_generator) handles the creation of sitemaps for search engines. To update the sitemap on server, run:
bundle exec rake sitemap:refresh:no_ping # don't ping search engines bundle exec rake sitemap:refresh # ping search engines
Don't forget to adjust the full url to your sitemaps in public/robots.txt
== Documentation
The complete documentation can be found at rdoc.info: http://rdoc.info/github/opoloo/lines/master/frames
== Customization
=== Modify CSS/SCSS
Admin viewer SCSS: app/assets/stylesheets/admin.css.scss
Default viewer SCSS: app/assets/stylesheets/style.css.scss
=== Modify custom hero images
You can add, remove or change the +HERO_IMAGES+ variable inside the app/models/article.rb model. The corresponding images reside inside the public/heroes directory.
=== Header (Meta) & Footer
To change the header/meta/footer elements you need to modify app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
== Screenshots
Some screenshots to get an impression of the look & feel
=== Dashboard {}[http://lines.opoloo.com/images/screenshot_01.png]
=== Create or edit an article {}[http://lines.opoloo.com/images/screenshot_02.png]
=== Preview and publish {}[http://lines.opoloo.com/images/screenshot_03.png]
== License
You may use the Lines blog template as you please. You must, however, keep the footer section, so attribution to Lines[http://lines.opoloo.com] and {Opoloo}[http://www.opoloo.com] is granted.
We heartily invite you to extend the features of the template, but when you do, you should fork it on GitHub, so everyone can profit from your work.
You can see the full license here: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/lgpl-v3/