cms-fortress

An extension for the awesome ComfortableMexicanSofa (github.com/comfy/comfortable-mexican-sofa) CMS Engine

Added Role Management for proper workflow
Added Devise for User and Session Management
Added User Management
Added Page caching control
Added proper page workflow
Customizable menus, role abilities
Added layout theming, current themes (:default, :wide)
Integrate Cms::Files (image,video and link) attachements into WYSIWYG editor buttons (wide theme only)

NOTE: with the major changes of comfy-sofa, cms-fortress supports only Rails 4.0++

Installation

Add gem defintion to your Gemfile:

gem 'cms-fortress', '~> 1.3.12'

Then from the Rails project’s root run:

bundle install
rails generate cms:fortress
rake db:migrate

After that run your app and navigate to localhost:3000/cms-admin to start creating your pages, and also don’t forget to delete your public/index.html file.

login using the following info below:

username: [email protected]
password: 1234qwer

Installing on project with Comfortable Mexican Sofa was already installed:

rails generate cms:fortress --no-comfy
rake db:migrate

Upgrading older version of cms-fortress:

rails generate cms:fortress:upgrade
rake db:migrate

Adding custom role details

You can create a custom role ability via a three-step process.

1: Edit config/roles.yml and add the new role under the category you wish.

contents:
  - pages
  - files
  - page.review
  - page.publish
designs:
  - layouts
  - snippets
settings:
  - sites
  - roles
  - users
  - *my_role_detail*

2: Configure cms-fortress to add a new resource. Add this in an initializer:

Cms::Fortress.configure do |config|
  config.settings_resources << {
    :name => 'my_role_detail',
    :title => 'i18n.label.title', # this is passed to the t() function - can be plain text
    :path => 'admin_my_role_details_path'
  }
  # the other two lists are "content_resources" and "design_resources"

  #adding a super user only menu item
  config.settings_resources << {
    :name => 'my_role_detail',
    :title => 'i18n.label.title', # this is passed to the t() function - can be plain text
    :path => 'admin_my_role_details_path',
    :super_user => true
  }

  # adding a divider menu item (Wide Theme only)
  config.content_resources << {name: 'divider'}

  #adding a menu header item (Wide Theme only)
  config.content_resources << {name: 'dropdown-header', title: "i18n.my.header.label"}

end

The path is eval’d at runtime, so you can use Rails helper methods such as current_user or @site in it. If the result is nil, the link will not show up in the left nav bar.

3: Restart the server. Go into each Role you have defined and click “Load New Roles”. Voila!

Other configuration

You can turn off page workflow or page caching via configuration and you can set the theme to :wide or :default:

Cms::Fortress.configure do |config|
  config.theme = :wide
  config.enable_page_workflow = false
  config.enable_page_caching = false
end

Wide Theme

With wide theme, the layout and menus are being compacted so that you have all the area for authoring. Files are also being nicely integrated to the WYSIWYG editor (tinymce). Below are the fetures for wide theme:

Compact Layout and Menus
Responsive Layout
Fullcreen Editing
Integrated image file attachment
Integrated video file attachment
Integrated link file attachment

TODO: More customization documents and sample

For more Comfortable Mexican Sofa awesomeness visit the wiki page here github.com/comfy/comfortable-mexican-sofa/wiki

Development & Testing

To run the tests you have to install the development files and run the migrations

rails generate cms:fortress --development
rake db:migrate

Afterwards you can run the tests by calling

rake test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.rdoc for details.