Class: Post

Inherits:
ActiveRecord::Base
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb

Overview

Posts written by users stored in database

Available scopes

Scopes are builtin methods to facilitate retrieving posts from the database. Scopes can also be chained to narrow your query even more.

published: Return posts that are published

drafted: Return posts that are NOT published

search_by_title: Return all post that have a title that match the key you provide

Direct Known Subclasses

Admin::Post

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: Content

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Attribute Details

#tags ⇒ Object

Returns the list of Tags link set for this post



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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 159

def tags
  @tags ||= Tag.where("tags.id in (?)", super || [])
end

Instance Method Details

#content ⇒ Object

Returns the content of this post. Depending on the current status of this post, it can be one of three things:

  • Compiled content;

  • Markdown content;

  • Empty string.

This method should be used when trying to render the body of a post to a page in HTML.



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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 131

def content
  @content ||= begin
    content = read_attribute('content')
    Content.new(content.fetch('raw', ''), content.fetch('html', ''))
  end
end

#draft? ⇒ Boolean

The opposite of published?

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 116

def draft?
  published_at.nil?
end

#excerpt ⇒ Object

Returns the compiled excerpt for this post. The excerpt is based on content but only returns text.

The excerpt is parsed from the content and it also filters out images and header.



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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 145

def excerpt
  (self.compiled_excerpt || "").html_safe
end

#header? ⇒ Boolean

Returns true if an image header was set for this post

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 152

def header?
  !self.header.nil? && !self.header.url.blank?
end

#month ⇒ Object

Returns the month this post was published



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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 84

def month
  published_at.month
end

#publish! ⇒ Object

Publish this post if it is not yet published

Update the database with the publish date



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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 100

def publish!
  return unless published_at.nil?
  self.published_at = DateTime.now
  save!
end

#published? ⇒ Boolean

Returns whether this post is published or not

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 109

def published?
  !draft?
end

#slug ⇒ Object

Return the slug link to the current title



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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 70

def slug
  self.titles.first.slug
end

#status=(new_status) ⇒ Object

:nodoc:



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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 89

def status=(new_status)
  if new_status.eql? "publish"
    publish!
  end
end

#title ⇒ Object

Return the current title for this post



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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 63

def title
  (self.titles.first || self.titles.new)
end

#title=(new_title) ⇒ Object

:nodoc:



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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 50

def title=(new_title)
  if self.published?
    self.titles.new(name: new_title)
  else
    title = self.titles.first || self.titles.new
    title.post = self
    title.name = new_title
  end
end

#year ⇒ Object

Returns the year this post was published



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# File 'lib/ecrire/app/models/post.rb', line 77

def year
  published_at.year
end