Tiny CMS
Is a minimal CMS Rails Engine or more likelly a “static” pages manager. Pages can be created, deleted, edited and arranged into sections using a file tree like interface courtesy of jQuery tree (jstree.com).
It attempts to be as minimal, flexible and unobtrusive as posible leaving a lot of functionality like templating languages and authentication/authorization for page creation, deletion and editing for the Rails app developer to implement.
Dependencies
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jQuery
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ActiveRecord
Installation
$ [sudo] gem install tiny_cms
Usage
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Configure in your app:
config.gem 'tiny_cms'
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Run the tiny_cms_assets generator, this will copy jquery-1.4.1, jquery-tree, a minimal version of jquery-ui
and tiny_cms.js and some stylesheets to your app’s public folder and a locale file to config/locales:
$ script/generate tiny_cms_assets
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Run tiny_cms generator passing a resource name to generate model, controller and migration files and write the routes:
$ script/generate tiny_cms page
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Run the migrations
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If you wan’t to customize the views or use a templating language you can copy the views to your app:
$ script/generate tiny_cms_views
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In your application layout or the layout for the resource you created include jquery and the tiny_cms.js file:
<%= javascript_include_tag 'jquery-1.4.2.min' %> <%= javascript_include_tag 'tiny_cms' %>
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Visit /pages of your app
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Use right mouse button for functions related to nodes
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 Macario Ortega. See LICENSE for details.