Venice
Where art meets technology.
v e n i c e is boilderplate website & blog implementation based on
Character library. It's used as
boilerplate for new Rails projects or quick prototypes.
Homepage: https://github.com/alexkravets/venice
Installation
It assumes you have a machine equipped with Ruby & Mongodb.
- Install the Venice gem using the RubyGems package manager:
gem install venice-chr
- Then kick off a new project:
venice new your-project-name
Shortcuts
We’ve also included some handy shortcuts with Venice:
- Install dependencies and clear the Git remote:
venice setup
Default admin account is [email protected]:password.
- Run the deploy (supported platforms: Heroku):
venice deploy
Default admin account: is [email protected]:password. After deploy is
finished, please login and create a new account, then remove default one.
- Start Venice server:
rails s
Related Gems
Venice is based on a bunch of open source gems. You might be interested to have a look into those to get better understanding of how things do work inside:
- Character: Powerful responsive javascript CMS for apps
- Formagic: Building forms with CoffeeScript
- Journal: Posts and pages implementation with templates and CMS modules
- Tape: Basic RSS reader that integrates into CMS
- Ants: Utility gem with helpers and concerns that are used on the backend and CMS
- Loft: Media assets manager for Character CMS
- Mongosteen: An easy way to add CRUD actions for Mongoid models
Contributing
If you'd like to contribute a feature or bugfix: Thanks! To make sure your fix/feature has a high chance of being included, please read the following guidelines:
- Fork the repository
- Make your changes
- Push your branch to your fork
- Post a pull request.
Thank you to all the contributors!