acts_as_publishable¶ ↑

Rails gem for making ActiveRecord models publishable.

gem install acts_as_publishable

Make a model publishable:

class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_publishable … end

Create a migration that adds the needed columns to the my_models table:

script/generate migration AddPublishableColumnsToMyModel publish_now:boolean published_from:datetime published_to:datetime

Now you can ask if an instance of MyModel is published:

my_model = MyModel.first my_model.published? => true

The published? method returns true if my_model either has publish_now set to true or published_from is set in the past and published_to is set in the future.

And you can also find instances of MyModel that are published:

MyModel.find_published

This finds all instances where published? returns true.

The find_published finder method accepts any of the normal options as the default find method accepts.

• Option for configuring whether publish_now should be OR’d or AND’d with the published_from and published_to columns

• Add publish! and unpublish! instance methods

• Update README to reflect functionality (config options, validation and the scope)

acts_as_publishable is distributed under the Simplified BSD License, copyright © 2010 Rasmus Bang Grouleff