activeadmin-blog
DEPRECATED
This gem is not supported and developed anymore.
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Blog app on the top of activeadmin and mongoid.
Quick install
IMPORTANT: Make sure local mongodb instance is running.
Replace new_blog name with the real one and run:
export project_name=new_blog ; curl https://raw.github.com/alexkravets/activeadmin-blog/master/install.sh | sh
This command creates new rails project fully configured and ready for Heroku deploy.
Manual Installation
Start a new rails project
$ rails new appname -T -O
Setup and configure ActiveAdmin
Mongoid 2.x gem set
gem "bson_ext"
gem "mongoid", '~> 2.0'
gem 'mongoid_search', '~> 0.2.8'
gem "devise"
gem "activeadmin-mongoid"
gem "carrierwave-mongoid"
gem "activeadmin-blog"
# Assets
gem "aws-s3"
gem "fog"
gem "mini_magick"
gem "asset_sync"
Mongoid 3.x gem set
# Mongoid 3.x
gem 'moped', git: 'git://github.com/mongoid/moped.git'
gem "mongoid", "~> 3.0.5"
gem "mongoid_search"
gem "devise", ">= 2.1.2"
gem "activeadmin-mongoid", git: "git://github.com/elia/activeadmin-mongoid.git"
gem "carrierwave-mongoid", git: "git://github.com/jnicklas/carrierwave-mongoid.git",
branch: "mongoid-3.0",
require: 'carrierwave/mongoid'
gem "activeadmin-blog"
# Assets
gem "aws-s3"
gem "fog"
gem "mini_magick"
gem "asset_sync"
Run following generators:
$ rails g mongoid:config
$ rails g devise:install
$ rails g active_admin:install
$ rails g activeadmin_settings:install
$ rails g activeadmin_blog:install blog
Create default admin user for activeadmin:
rake activeadmin:settings:create_admin
Run rails s blog should be accesible at http://localhost:3000/blog
Customizing blog views
Install default views templates to /app/views/blog:
$ rails g activeadmin_blog:views blog
Default style
By default blog is comming with a Twitter Bootstrap typography, to enable it add to Gemfile:
gem "twitter-bootstrap-rails", :git => "git://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails.git"
Install required bootstrap assets:
rails g bootstrap:install
Remove reuire_self line from application.js and application.css these are added by bootstrap intall and will break the layout with activeadmin styles.
In application.js include:
//= require bootstrap
In application.css include:
/*
*= require bootstrap_and_overrides
*= require_self
*/
// Tuning styles for kaminari pagination
.pagination .page.current {
float:left;
padding:0 14px;
line-height:34px;
text-decoration:none;
border:1px solid #DDD;
border-left-width:0;
color:#999;
cursor:default;
background-color:whiteSmoke;
}
.pagination span:first-child, .pagination .first a { border-left-width:1px; }
Heroku
Mongoid
Configure local and production config/mongoid.yml settings to look like this:
development:
host: localhost
database: supercaliblog
test:
host: localhost
database: supercaliblog_test
production:
uri: <%= ENV["MONGO_URL"] %>
Carrierwave
Create an S3 bucket for redactor image uploading feature and configure config/initializers/carrierwave.rb:
CarrierWave.configure do |config|
config.cache_dir = File.join(Rails.root, "tmp", "uploads")
config.storage = :fog
config.fog_credentials = {
:provider => "AWS",
:aws_access_key_id => ENV["AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"],
:aws_secret_access_key => ENV["AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"]
}
case Rails.env.to_sym
when :development
config.storage = :file
when :production
config.fog_directory = ENV["FOG_MEDIA_DIRECTORY"]
config.fog_host = "//#{ ENV["FOG_MEDIA_DIRECTORY"] }.s3.amazonaws.com"
config.fog_attributes = {"Cache-Control"=>"max-age=315576000"} # optional, defaults to {}
end
end
Make sure you've set Heroku environtment variables:
FOG_MEDIA_DIRECTORY
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
MONGO_URL
Production assets
Add the following line to config/environments/production.rb:
config.assets.precompile += ["active_admin.js", "active_admin.css", "redactor/css/style.css"]
TODO
- Admin blog post search;