Burp

The Big Universal Rubik's cube Processor

Until we figure out how solve a Rubiks cube your welcome to use Burp as a CMS.

Why Burp?

We think most CMS are some where between bad and awful!

So we created a new one in hope that we and others would like it. We have 3 guiding goals that help us stay away from bad and awful.

  • Don't hinder the developer.
  • Don't try to solve everything.
  • Don't be ugly.

Screenshots

In the admin The admin

Adding an image Adding an image

Editing text Text editing

Installation

Add the gem to your Gemfile

gem 'burp_cms'

Install the gem and init burp.

bundle install
rake burp:init

You can find the admin on /burp/ and the default admin password in ./config/initializers/burp_access.rb.

CMS Page's

There is a controller called CatchAll in the Rails engine that catches all requests not cought by any other rules. When a request has a path that matches one of the CMS pages then that CMS page is loaded and shown.

Snippets

An example for a sidebar snippet.

<%= @cms_page[:sidebar] %>

Snippets on other pages

To use snippets on pages not cought by the CatchAllController. The or part is to stop errors do to nil.

before_filter :load_cms_page
def load_cms_page
  @cms_page = Burp.find_page(request.path) || Burp::Page.new(:id => request.path)
end

Title

<title><%= @cms_page.title %></title>

Meta description

<meta name="description" content="<%= @cms_page.meta_description %>" >

Render the menu

<%= @menu.to_html(request) %>

Or do it manualy

<nav>
  <ul>
    <% @menu.children.select{|child| child.is_a?(Burp::Link) }.each do |child| %>
    <li class="<%= child.css_class %> <%= child.current?(request) ? "active" : "" %>"><%= child.to_html %></li>
    <% end %>
  </ul>
</nav>

Use menu on none CMS pages.

The @menu variable is only available for pages served with the catch_all controller. Do the below in the ApplicationController to have it available on all pages.

before_filter :load_menu
def load_menu
  @menu = Burp::Menu.find("main")
end

Global content like footers/headers

There is curently no builtin solution for this. Until we add this one can use the solution below to get the same as global snippets.

Add this to application_controller

helper_method :global_snippets
def global_snippets
  @global_snippets ||= Burp.find_page("/global-snippets") || Burp::Page.new(:snippets => {}, :title => "Not a real page, Dont remove!", :page_id => "/global-snippets")
end

and use it like this in your views.

<html>
  ...
  <body>
    <header>
      <%= global_snippets[:header] %>
    </header>
    ....
    <footer>
      <%= global_snippets[:footer] %>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

Changes

1.7.1

  • Fixed so that dependancy on jquery-ui-rails set to the correct version.

Authors

Authors: Björn Blomqvist

Special thanks to the following people and companies:

Contributing

  • Fork the project
  • Send a pull request
  • Don't touch the .gemspec, I'll do that when I release a new version

Copyright (c) 2012 - 2013 Björn Blomqvist. See LICENSE.txt (LGPL) for further details.