Cmtool
This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.
About
Cmtool is a CMS to give you a quickstart for a website using CouchDB as database backend. It is in developing stage, but already used in production. It is designed as an engine. The thought behind is that you will have to create your own rails website, but get a lot of stuff for free. These things are:
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User management
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Page management
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Faq
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News
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Newsletter subscriptions
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Directory manager
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Image manager
Setup
To start using Cmtool as website CMS add it to your Gemfile. Since it depends on github gems and gem dependencies do not support those you have to explicitly add two dependencies to your Gemfile:
gem 'couch_potato' , :git => 'git://github.com/bterkuile/couch_potato.git'
gem 'simply_stored' , :git => 'git://github.com/bterkuile/simply_stored.git'
gem 'cmtool'
This will add some gems you might like anyway, here a list:
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bourbon
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jquery-rails
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tinymce-rails
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sass-rails
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haml-rails
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paperclip
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email_validator (validates :email, email: true)
User model
The user model is important. We recommend you to create your own user model:
class User
include Cmtool::User
end
This is enough to start using Cmtool. But probably you want to add some goodies of your own. Remember that this is a SimplyStored model with almost all the ActiveModel features.
Page model
The page model allows you to control some interesting things. To create it (app/models/page.rb):
class Page
include Cmtool::Page
# Define the locales you want to use in your website
def self.locales
[:en]
end
# Define the layouts you want to use in your website. Be sure to create them in
# app/views/layouts/...
# The first specified layout will become the default
def self.layouts
[:application, :home, :contact]
end
end
Controlling the language of the system
If you add a method cmtool_locale
to your application controller Cmtool will take this value:
class ApplicationController
before_filter :set_locale
private
def set_locale
# Do some magic
I18n.locale = :en
end
def cmtool_locale
I18n.locale
end
end
Customize a page
All pages by default are rendered using the view: app/pages/show. So adding and changing this file will change all displayed pages without their own specific page. To create a specific page, create a page with the name of the page you created in the Admin section. If for example you have created a page with the name: about Then you can give this page a custom look using the view: app/views/about.html.haml
You can also use erb, slim or your choice of templating engine
Customize your 404
You can customize what is shown when a page cannot be found. There is a standard view app/pages/404.html.erb with the following content:
<%= render template: 'pages/show' %>
Overwrite this to get another page as show. To controll the content of the 404 page, create a page in the Admin area having the name: 404. You can make a 404 page for every language in this manner. Here you can also give a custom layout if you do not want to use the default layout.