Chemistry

A simple, lightweight single-site CMS that you can bolt onto any Rails applicaiton to give it a home page, some other pages and a nice toolkit for editing and linking them. It is meant to be just complicated enough: pages are built out of a stack of pre-styled sections ordered by a template. Your designer prepares the templates and CSS. Your authors populate the sections, adding images and video as required.

Chemistry is essentially an API and comes with a nice editing SPA, but of course you can add any interface you like.

Requirements

We make some assumptions about your application:

• It has users of some kind
• It uses cancan(can) to authorize its users
• User model responds to can?

For that last you may need to do some delegating to Ability in the User class:

  def ability
    @ability ||= Ability.new(self)
  end
  delegate :can?, :cannot?, to: :ability

Chemistry requires Rails 5.1+ and uses Paperclip for asset-attachment, which your application will need to configure.

Usage

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NB. atm you have to copy chemistry-sprite.svg into /public in your main_app

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'chemistry'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install chemistry

Contributing

Contribution directions go here.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.