SpokesBlog

We found ourselves implementing blog-like features into many projects, so it was decided that the best thing to do would package these features into a gem to apply them easily to different projects. This means that this gem builds a skeleton of a blog in a Rails 4 application, with a few project specific blanks to fill out, especially the views, which are there to document the api.

It's still under development, features may not work or break things, but we're working on it ;).

By default it adds acts-as-taggable-on, kaminari, and haml to your Gemfile, but those can be removed after installation if desired. jquery.Datables plugin is not included!

The main model is post.rb, which has_many blocks, which hold the actual text content. It's fine to use a single block per post, but having many blocks per post make structuring content more flexible. There's also an SeoMeta model, which holds basic seo-related information and can be attatched to posts or blocks and later used in a view via a presenter.

The gem assumes a User model and table already exist, so all that's needed is:

rails g spokes_blog
bundle install
rake db:migrate

1. The post presenter assumes the User model has a full_name method, but this can be changed to be something application specific.

2. The post model has both an author_id and created_by_id. The latter should be set by the controller, whereas the former should be editable.

3. The Pageable concern adds some convenience methods such as searching by slug or an easy mapping (enum?) for document states (draft, published, archived). Check it out!

Controllers:
  admin/spokes_blog/posts_controller.rb - admin ctrl
  spokes_blog/posts_controller.rb - public ctrl
Models:
  spokes_blog/ - post, block, seo_meta
  spokes_blog/concerns - pageable
Views (pretty empty, mainly as api documentation)
  admin/spokes_blog/posts
  spokes_blog/posts
Presenters (presenter pattern)
  presenters/presenter.rb - base presenter class
  presenters/post_presenter.rb

It will also update routes.rb and application rb.