EasySite Boilerplate by mediatainment productions

This app is a boilerplate to jumpstart a rails app. So the most basic setup is already done. Rename the app (see below), set the ENV Variables and you are good to go. Read the .gemfile to see what's already installed.

Setup

1. Rename the app
2. Set ENV VARS
3. Build the database
4. Generate an admin (admin:rescue)
5. Start workers
6. Start app

ENV

You can also put a .env file into your project root containing the env files

These variables must be set to run the app correctly:

SECRET_TOKEN:              YOUR_SUPER_SECRET_TOKEN
HOST:                      localhost:3000
MAIL_SENDER_EMAIL_ADDRESS: YOUR_EMAIL
MAIL_SENDER_PASSWORD:      YOUR_PASSWORD
MAIL_SENDER_PORT:          587
MAIL_SENDER_SERVER_HOST:   YOUR_SMTP_SERVER
MAIL_SENDER_TLS:           false
MAIL_SENDER_USERNAME:      YOUR_EMAIL
MAIL_SYSTEM_ADMIN:         YOUR_EMAIL
S3_BUCKET_NAME             THE_S3_BUCKET_NAME
S3_KEY:                    THE_S3_KEY
S3_SECRET:                 THE_S3_SECRET_KEY
S3_REGION:                 THE_S3_REGION

Rake Tasks

Generate Admin

Generates an admin with email [email protected] and passwort asdfasdf1

admin:rescue:init

Renaming the app

rails g rename:app_to Your-New-Name # -> CamelCase-With-Dash-Is-Important

You must also change the config/database_yml file

Mercury Content

In order to be able to make inplace editing most efficient, we use Mercury.

We modified mercury, so you can use a specific view_helper in the view, give it an #id, and optional parameters and the tag is doing the rest.

<%= make_mercury(id, kind=:simple, surrounded_tag=:div, i18n=false) %>

Possible kind/types of mercury tags are:

• :simple

  • unformatted text field (default)
  • example make_mercury("my-dom-id")
  • example make_mercury("my-dom-id", :simple, :p) with "p"-tag
  • example make_mercury("my-dom-id", :simple, :p, true) with "p"-tag and translation

• :full

  • full editable content (html, snippets, images)
  • example make_mercury('my-dom-id', :full)

• :image

  • image tag (drag and drop)
  • example make_mercury("my-dom-id", :image)
  • example make_mercury('my-dom-id', :image, nil, false, '100%x500')

• :snippets

  • allows only to put in snippets (n.times)
  • example make_mercury("my-dom-id", :snippets)

Authentication

This template uses the devise gem.

The role management is handled by cancancan and its roles are handled in the Ability model

It's predefined to use

https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan

Short description

add skip_authoization_check or load_and_authorize_resource or load_resource or authorize_resource to your controllers

In the Ability- model you can define your roles and authorizations. A description can be found in the Ability model itself.

Preconfigured Sites

This template offers the following sites already setup

• / (index/index)
• /contact (index/contact)
• /users
• /roles
• /login
• /logout
• /register
• /password
• /confirm
• /unlock

Navigation

The navigation for the menues can be set in /config/navigation.rb. You can also create differen files for the different menues you want. But you have to suffix with xxx_navigation.rb

Basic instruction and usage is in the /config folder. Keep in mind: One file has to exist named navigation.rb

Detailed documentation is here https://github.com/codeplant/simple-navigation/wiki

SEO

Meta Tags

set_meta_tags :keywords => %w[keyword1 Keyword2 KeyWord3]
set_meta_tags :description => "All text about keywords, other keywords"
set_meta_tags :title => 'Member Login'
set_meta_tags :site => 'Site Title', :title => 'Member Login', :reverse => true

Translation

https://github.com/globalize/globalize

Do not use the change method, use up and down!

class CreatePosts < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def up
    create_table :posts do |t|
      t.timestamps
    end
    Post.create_translation_table! :title => :string, :text => :text
  end
  def down
    drop_table :posts
    Post.drop_translation_table!
  end
end

InPlaceEditing

https://github.com/janv/rest_in_place

To make a piece of Text inplace-editable, wrap it into an element (a span usually) with class "rest-in-place". The editor needs 3 pieces of information to work: a URL, an object name and the attribute name. These are provided as follows:

put attributes into the element, like this:

<span class="rest-in-place" data-url="/users/1" data-object="user" data-attribute="name" data-placeholder="Enter a name">
  <%= @user.name %>
</span>

if any of these attributes is missing, DOM parents of the element are searched for them. That means you can write something like:

<div data-object="user" data-url="/users/1">
  Name:  <span class="rest-in-place" data-attribute="name" ><%= @user.name %></span><br/>
  eMail: <span class="rest-in-place" data-attribute="email"><%= @user.email %></span>
</div>

You can completely omit the URL to use the current document's URL. With proper RESTful controllers this should always work, the explicit URL-attribute is for cases when you want to edit a resource that is displayed as part of a non-RESTful webpage.

Rails provides the DOM helper that constructs a DOM id out of an ActiveRecord for you. So, your HTML page may look like this:

<div id="<%= dom_id @user # == "user_1" %>">
  Name:  <span class="rest-in-place" data-attribute="name" ><%= @user.name %></span><br/>
  eMail: <span class="rest-in-place" data-attribute="email"><%= @user.email %></span>
</div>

REST in Place recognizes dom_ids of this form and derives the object parameter from them, so that (with the current documents URL used) you really only need to provide the attributes name in most cases.

Note that a manually defined (in the element or in one of the parents) object always overrides dom_id recognition.

REST in Place supports multiple form types. The default type is a input field, a textarea is also supported. To select a form type use the data-formtype attribute in the element and set it to the name of your formtype ( input, or textarea ).

To write your own form types, just extend the RestInPlace.forms object and select your new form type throught the data-formtype attribute.

Elements with the class rest-in-place are picked up automatically upon document.ready. For other elements, grab them via jQuery and call .restInPlace() on the jQuery object.

$('.my-custom-class').restInPlace()

Events

A REST in Place instance triggers four different events on the element that it's associated with:

activate.rest-in-place when starting the editing of the element. Triggering the event is the first thing that happens, before any processing and form building takes place. That means you can use this event to modify the content of the element (for example to remove number/date formatting). ready.rest-in-place when the form has been built. This event can be used e.g. to change the size of the field or textarea. success.rest-in-place with the data retrieved from the server as an extra parameter after a successful save on the server. This event is triggered at the very latest moment, after the element has been restored with the data from the server. This means you can use the event handler to further modify the data and overwrite the displayed value (useful for number/date formatting for example). failure.rest-in-place after an error occurred. The second argument will be jQuery's responseJSON, so it is possible to handle (for instance) server-side validation errors.

$('#my-editable-element').bind('failure.rest-in-place', function(event, json) {
    $el = $(this);
    attr = $el.data("attribute");
    error_message = json[attr].join(", ");
    $el.after("<span class='error'>#{error_message}</span>");
});
update.rest-in-place immediately before sending the update to the server

abort.rest-in-place when the user aborts the editing process.
Bind to these events through the jQuery event mechanisms:

$('#my-editable-element').bind('success.rest-in-place', function(event, data){
  console.log("Yay it worked! The new value is", data.whatever);
});

Example

Your routes.rb:

resources :users

Your app/controllers/users_controller.rb:

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  def show
    @user = User.find params[:id]
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.json {render :json => @user}
    end
  end

  def update
    @user = User.find params[:id]
    if @user.update_attributes!(params[:user])
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html { redirect_to( @person )}
        format.json { render :json => @user }
      end
    else
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html { render :action  => :edit } # edit.html.erb
        format.json { render :nothing =>  true }
      end
    end
  end
end
Your app/views/users/show.html.erb:

<div id="<%= dom_id @user %>">
  ID: <%= @user.id %><br />
  Name: <span class="rest-in-place" data-formtype="input" data-attribute="name"><%= @user.name %></span><br/><br/>
  Hobbies: <span class="rest-in-place" data-formtype="textarea" data-attribute="hobbies"><%= @user.hobbies %></span>
</div>

You can run this example by running to the testapp included in this plugin with script/server (SQLite3 required) and visiting localhost:3000/users/

Hint: you might need to set up the database first. Copy and edit testapp/config/database.yml.sample accordingly. If you don't want to use the included SQLite3 database, run rake db:create and rake db:schema:load.

FileUpload with Carrierwave

Set ENV Variables

S3_KEY
S3_SECRET
S3_BUCKET_NAME
S3_REGION

Visit website to get more Infos

https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave

Usage of CK-Editor

Simply add a class to your textarea-Tag. (Example: f.bootstrap_text_area :my_content, label: t('content'), class: 'ckeditor'

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