Almost Happy

Almost happy is a set of content management tools for ActiveRecord 3 and higher. It's built on a simple, clean code base that makes it easy to do trivial content management tools.

First off, you'll need to add the gem to the Gemfile. For most cases, the following line should do:

gem "almost-happy"

Then, run bundle install.

Currently it provides two sets of functionality - publishable and convertable.

E.g. to make a model publishable:

class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
  is_publishable
end

And, for each content field, declare it convertable:

class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
  is_publishable
  is_convertable :content
end

And before each save it will automatically convert the content to html using the specific format etc.

When a model is marked as publishable, it provides the following instance methods:

• published? - returns a boolean indicating if it's published. also aliased to published for forms.
• publish! - mark the post as published right now.
• published=(value) - mark items as published in forms.

And, the following class methods:

• published - returns a relation with all published posts
• ordered - returns a relation ordered by the published at time
• ordered_for_preview - returns a relation ordered by the published at time, those unpublished first.

When a model is marked as convertable, it adds hooks (inc. validation) to convert raw content in one format to another.

the is_convertable call accepts field names as the argument and an optional options hash.

The options hash currently has one options - :validate - defaulting to true, determining whether the presence and format is validated.

For each field passed to is_convertable, it will provide the following methods:

• #{field}_as_html - rendered version as a html safe string

When using on a model, it expects a format (string) column exists and for each field the following:

• #{field} - stores the original, editable content (in whichever format is specified)
• rendered_#{field} - stores the converted field value

When rendering a form, please note you can also get a set of formats for a select field using AlmostHappy::Convertor.for_select.

1. Fork the project.
2. Make your feature addition or bug fix.
3. Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
4. Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
5. Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright (c) 2010 Darcy Laycock. See LICENSE for details.