RailsAdminCMS

Flexible Content Management Framework for RailsAdmin

Features

View helpers example

There is an example of a common template using some of the cms view helpers:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title><%= title = cms_title('AppRailsAdminCMS') %></title>
  <%= cms_meta_data_tags %>
  <%= cms_meta_og_tags(title) %>
  <%= stylesheet_link_tag    'application', media: 'all', 'data-turbolinks-track' => true %>
  <%= javascript_include_tag 'application', 'data-turbolinks-track' => true %>
  <%= csrf_meta_tags %>
</head>
<body class="<%= cms_body_class('shop', 'cart') %>">

<%= cms_flash_messages %>
<div>
  <%= cms_locale_selector %>
</div>
<div>
  <%= cms_link_to_edit_mode if current_admin? %>
</div>

<%= yield %>

</body>
</html>

What's going on:

cms_title outputs a title tag defined by either a view element or a default one passed as argument
cms_meta_data_tags outputs the meta keywords + description tags defined by either a page/form object or a complete default one passed as argument
cms_body_class outputs
cms_flash_messages
cms_locale_selector
cms_link_to_edit_mode
current_admin?

Content management

Pages

Create your page templates by adding files in the app/views/cms/pages/ folder. You can then add any other CMS element inside those templates. Don't forget to create the route to be able to access the page.

By adding <% view = cms_page %> at the top of your page, your page will now be clonable. You'll be able to use this page as a basis for your static pages. Just add the following elements in your page to create the links to create <%= view.add_link %> or edit <%= view.edit_link %> your page.

When creating a new page, you'll be able to assign an URL, a title, the meta-description and meta-keywords for the page.

If you need to have a reusable page template with different contents on each new page, you can create element using cms_view_image (or any other viewable) instead of cms_image. This way, you'll have a copy of element, without the contents.

Blocks

Blocks are the equivalent of a CMS partial that you can add to your page. You use them by creating a template in the app/views/cms/blocks/ folder. You can then create any CMS element inside those blocks and insert them into your pages.

Here is an example of block insertion with a template named _example.html.erb

<% 
# you'll be able to insert between 1 and 4 instances of this block
blocks = cms_example('block_name', 1, 4) 
%>

<% blocks.each do |block| %>
  <%= block.render %>
  <%= block.edit_link %>
<% end %>
<%= blocks.add_link %>

Texts

Texts allow you to enter content on your page with a WYSIWYG editor. You'll be able to edit a title field and a text field so you can add basic texts blocks in your application.

Here's how you use texts blocks

<% 
# you'll be able to insert between 1 and 3 blocks of text
texts = cms_text('text_name', 1, 3) 
%>

<% texts do |text| %>
  <%= text.title %>
  <%= text.text %>
  <%= text.edit_link %>
<% end %>
<%= text.add_link %>

Strings

Strings works just like texts. The element contains a single string (255) editable field.

<% 
  # Declaration of the element
  my_string = cms_string('string_name') 
%>
  <%= my_string.string %>
  <%= my_string.edit_link %>

Links

Use this element to create links in your pages. They function like texts blocks, they however have some other options.

<%
  # First, create the link element
  menu = cms_link('link_name', 0, Float::INFINITY)
%>

# link_to: Create a simple link element
<% menu.each do |link| %>
  <%= link.li_link %>
<% end %>

# li_link_to: Create a link element wrapped with <li>
<ul>
<% menu.each do |link| %>
  <%= link.li_link_to %>
<% end %>
</ul>

# li_link_to_with_edit: Add link wrapped with <li> with edit link
<ul>
<% menu.each do |link| %>
  <%= link.li_link_to_with_edit %>
<% end %>
</ul>

# youtube_embed_url: Returns an iframe with embeded Youtube video
<% menu.each do |link| %>
  <%= link.youtube_embed_url %>
<% end %>

# url: Insert only the url of the link
<% menu.each do |link| %>
  <a href="<%= link.url %>">A nice link</a>
<% end %>

Class Selector

Using the Class Selector element, you'll be able to allow the administrator to add classes to element. It's main usage is to allow the selection between the classes that creates icons.

First, you'll need to provide an array containing the classes in the rails_admin_cms initializer using the class_list parameter. Then, you'll be able to edit the element and choose one of the provided classes and add some more if you need to.

How to use it:

<% 
  # Declaration of the element
  my_classes = cms_class_selector('cs_name') 
%>
  <%= my_classes.classes %>
  <%= my_classes.edit_link %>

Mailchimp

First, mailchimp_api_key and mailchimp_list_id_en (and mailchimp_list_id_xx where xx is the locale) need to be defined within config/secrets.yml. Then, use the partial app/views/cms/shared/_mailchimp.html.erb to output the mailchimp form:

<%= render 'cms/shared/mailchimp' %>

Flash messages could be overriden by the keys flash_messages.mailchimp.subscribe.(success|error).
Input placeholder could be overriden by the key simple_form.placeholders.mailchimp.email.
Input and submit button are wrapper in a div tag with the class cms-mailchimp.

Redirector

You can import a list of 301 redirections directly with a simple rake task. Simply create a csv file in the db/redirects folder with the source and destination columns. You can then run the rake redirector:import command to launch the importation process. The imported file will then be moved to the db/redirects/imported directory.

TODO

Documentation
Generators
Setup CanCanCan
Setup Globalize on Form::Field and Form::Email
Improve breadcrumbs functionality
Link to image edit in edit form (for cropping)
Confirmation email for forms
Published Pages/Forms
Redirector
Setting fetched from Yaml file
Pretty Url for Viewable::LinkPresenter#url as file_url
Fetch image size based on Screen size
More Specs

Notes

gem 'dalli-delete-matched' needed if Memcached is used

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.

rails_admin_cms

Development

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