hey, i''ve created a basic content management system using rails and scriptaculous. I posted a first version last week, but I heavily extended it since then. Features: Pages are arranged in a sortable tree (sortable by drag and drop) Pages have "nice" URLS (no /index?articleid=97361496 or something) Cacheing on page basis every page has a layout with a number of columns page elements can be put into the columns by drag and drop (sortable lists) Each page element has its own view and controller. Up to now I have created Title, raw HTML, rich text editor and rails component, but adding your own elements should be easy You can check it out under http://adminpages.flowdev.de Source: http://www.flowdev.de/adminpages_0.2.tar.gz Of course there are many rough edges, but come on, second version! And yes, it is BSD licensed. I would love it if any of you are interested in joining me in the development. Mail me, then I will put it on rubyforge Cheers, Martin (Username wooyay on #rubyonrails) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Martin Scheffler wrote:> hey, i''ve created a basic content management system using rails and > scriptaculous. I posted a first version last week, but I heavily > extended it since then. > > Features: > Pages are arranged in a sortable tree (sortable by drag and drop) > Pages have "nice" URLS (no /index?articleid=97361496 or something) > Cacheing on page basis > every page has a layout with a number of columns > page elements can be put into the columns by drag and drop (sortable > lists) > Each page element has its own view and controller. Up to now I have > created Title, raw HTML, rich text editor and rails component, but > adding your own elements should be easy > > You can check it out under http://adminpages.flowdev.de >That looks quite usable, nice interface! I will take a look at the code. Stan -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Hello Martin, Very nice work on what you have so far - it''s amazing at what can be accomplished with little added code with Rails, still gets me every time... Best I get to the point eh? What I wanted to remind you of is to post on the Rails Wiki - Your work with this, if you haven''t already. I just looked and hope that I didn''t somehow miss it. http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Ruby+on+Rails+based+CMS On 3/8/06, Stan Winston <swinston@hotmail.com> wrote:> > Martin Scheffler wrote: > > hey, i''ve created a basic content management system using rails and > > scriptaculous. I posted a first version last week, but I heavily > > extended it since then. > > > > Features: > > Pages are arranged in a sortable tree (sortable by drag and drop) > > Pages have "nice" URLS (no /index?articleid=97361496 or something) > > Cacheing on page basis > > every page has a layout with a number of columns > > page elements can be put into the columns by drag and drop (sortable > > lists) > > Each page element has its own view and controller. Up to now I have > > created Title, raw HTML, rich text editor and rails component, but > > adding your own elements should be easy > > > > You can check it out under http://adminpages.flowdev.de > > > > That looks quite usable, nice interface! > I will take a look at the code. > Stan > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060309/f5721b61/attachment.html
It is very nice and useful too. Only problem I have is this: I created a simple table for news. I also created the controller and views using scaffold. But when I try to "add render component" I get an error that controller news with action list does not exit. Martin Scheffler wrote:> hey, i''ve created a basic content management system using rails and > scriptaculous. I posted a first version last week, but I heavily > extended it since then. > > Features: > Pages are arranged in a sortable tree (sortable by drag and drop) > Pages have "nice" URLS (no /index?articleid=97361496 or something) > Cacheing on page basis > every page has a layout with a number of columns > page elements can be put into the columns by drag and drop (sortable > lists) > Each page element has its own view and controller. Up to now I have > created Title, raw HTML, rich text editor and rails component, but > adding your own elements should be easy > > You can check it out under http://adminpages.flowdev.de > > Source: http://www.flowdev.de/adminpages_0.2.tar.gz > > Of course there are many rough edges, but come on, second version! > > And yes, it is BSD licensed. I would love it if any of you are > interested in joining me in the development. Mail me, then I will put it > on rubyforge > > Cheers, > Martin (Username wooyay on #rubyonrails) >-- Alexander Antonakakis Information Systems Department Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania Tel.: +30 28210 35000 718 Email: alexis@maich.gr
Joe ManFoo wrote:> Hello Martin, > > Very nice work on what you have so far - it''s amazing at what can be > accomplished with little added code with Rails, still gets me every > time... > > Best I get to the point eh? What I wanted to remind you of is to post > on > the Rails Wiki - Your work with this, if you haven''t already. I just > looked > and hope that I didn''t somehow miss it. > > http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Ruby+on+Rails+based+CMSHi Joe, yes, I will add it as soon as I have uploaded it to RubyForge. Alexander, Yes, it was a typo. In page_elements_controller, change render_component_to_string to render_component_as_string. I did some other minor changes, you can get the newest package at http://www.flowdev.de/adminpages_0.2.1.tar.gz -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Martin Scheffler wrote:> hey, i''ve created a basic content management system using rails and > scriptaculous. I posted a first version last week, but I heavily > extended it since then. > > Features: > Pages are arranged in a sortable tree (sortable by drag and drop) > Pages have "nice" URLS (no /index?articleid=97361496 or something) > Cacheing on page basis > every page has a layout with a number of columns > page elements can be put into the columns by drag and drop (sortable > lists) > Each page element has its own view and controller. Up to now I have > created Title, raw HTML, rich text editor and rails component, but > adding your own elements should be easy > > You can check it out under http://adminpages.flowdev.de > > Source: http://www.flowdev.de/adminpages_0.2.tar.gz > > Of course there are many rough edges, but come on, second version! > > And yes, it is BSD licensed. I would love it if any of you are > interested in joining me in the development. Mail me, then I will put it > on rubyforge > > Cheers, > Martin (Username wooyay on #rubyonrails)I took a look at your cms. It would be great if there was a way to define the relative position of the columns in the editor. Is that possible? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Looks pretty interesting - but I could use a couple sentences worth of documentation. A very short README file would do. I downloaded the tar file, created a mysql database, loaded the datamodel, and started Webrick. Then I couldn''t find any pages. After looking at your demo site, I deduced that I need /page/$STUB to find the pages I see in the database. That gives me the "show" part. But how do I find the admin pages to do editing? On your demo site, that''s what you get at /. Clearly that isn''t what you want on a real site, but reading routes.rb and poking around in app/views/ didn''t enlighten me about where to find the login and admin pages. Thanks, -- Cynthia Kiser cynthia.kiser@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060310/746343c4/attachment.html
Cynthia Kiser wrote:> Looks pretty interesting - but I could use a couple sentences worth of > documentation. A very short README file would do. I downloaded the tar > file, > created a mysql database, loaded the datamodel, and started Webrick. > Then I > couldn''t find any pages. After looking at your demo site, I deduced that > I > need /page/$STUB to find the pages I see in the database. That gives me > the > "show" part. But how do I find the admin pages to do editing? On your > demo > site, that''s what you get at /. Clearly that isn''t what you want on a > real > site, but reading routes.rb and poking around in app/views/ didn''t > enlighten > me about where to find the login and admin pages. Thanks,Hi Cynthia, you probably downloaded the 0.2 version, I changed the routes.rb in the 0.2.1 version. It now looks like this: ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| map.connect "#{ADMIN_PAGE_DIR}/*name", :controller=>''view_pages'', :action=>''show_page '' map.connect '''', :controller => "admin_pages", :action=>"edit_pages" map.connect '':controller/service.wsdl'', :action => ''wsdl'' map.connect '':controller/:action/:id'' end You are right, there is no documentation yet, but that will be my next step. I just received my Rubyforge account for the project, I will upload everything to the CVS later in the day. First I have to earn me some money :) Martin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
OK, I have uploaded the project files to RubyForge.
The project page is http://rubyforge.org/projects/adminpages/
So if you are interested in joining the project, drop me a note and I
can add you as a developer.
The demo is still running at http://adminpages.flowdev.de/ .
What is coming next:
Better integration with FCKeditor (upload images)
RMagick integration - an element type image
better cache clearing algorithm (at the moment the whole cache is
cleared every time the page tree changes)
A way to add custom data fields to page layouts (like header image or
meta keywords or whatever)
I added a small readme. This is the text:
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Adminpages Readme
Project description:
A content management system on Rails.
Use it to administer design-heavy sites in a user-friendly way.
Features:
Manipulate pages and content with Drag n Drop,
"Nice" URLs,
Caching,
FCKEditor,
multiple columns per page,
custom content types
Aims of the project:
- Create a system that can be used to add pages to a web site and add
content to these pages.
- The interface should be usable by non-technical persons.
- Each page has a page layout. The page layout defines the content of
the page, for example the number of columns, a header image and a page
title. For each con
tent element, the page edit mask should provide a way to change this
element. The page layouts should be editable through the web mask, but
maybe not by the end
user
- Integrate a rich text editor. At the moment there is a content element
which uses FCKEditor, but there is no way to upload images yet.
- Should work under Mozilla FireFox and IE6. Safari and Opera are a
problem, because there are no rich text editors that support these
browsers.
NOT aims of the project:
- change templates over the web interface. The adminpages interface is
only for end users, not for designers or programmers
- add dynamic elements like comments or polls. Stuff like that can be
integrated by adding a content element "render_component", which can
be
used to integrate
dynamic stuff.
- Backwards-compability to ancient browser versions
INSTALLING
Create a new mysql database
Import adminpages/db/development.sql to that database
copy adminpages/config/database.yml.default to
adminpages/config/database.yml and change the content
Get the FCKEditor from http://www.fckeditor.net/download/
Uncompress the editor to adminpages/public. You should have a folder
adminpages/public/FCKeditor
Edit the file adminpages/config/routes.rb to define the URL that will be
used to access the pages.
Default is /pages/.
!!!!!!!!!!Watch out:!!!!!!!!!
Don''t mount the pages to the root of the web server or to an existing
folder.
The cache clearing algorithm would delete any content of these
folders!!!
Starting the application: like any other rails app.
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