Tiny CMS¶ ↑

Is a minimal CMS Rails Engine or more likelly a “static” pages manager. Pages can be created, deleted, edited and arranged into sections using a file tree like interface courtesy of jQuery tree (jstree.com).

It attempts to be as minimal, flexible and unobtrusive as posible leaving a lot of functionality like templating languages and authentication/authorization for page creation, deletion and editing for the Rails app developer to implement.

Dependencies ¶ ↑

• jQuery

• ActiveRecord

Installation¶ ↑

$ [sudo] gem install tiny_cms

Usage¶ ↑

• Configure in your app:

  config.gem 'tiny_cms'
  

• Run the tiny_cms_assets generator, this will copy jquery-1.4.1, jquery-tree, a minimal version of jquery-ui

and tiny_cms.js and some stylesheets to your app’s public folder and a locale file to config/locales:

$ script/generate tiny_cms_assets

• Run tiny_cms generator passing a resource name to generate model, controller and migration files and write the routes:

  $ script/generate tiny_cms page

• Run the migrations

• If you wan’t to customize the views or use a templating language you can copy the views to your app:

  $ script/generate tiny_cms_views

• In your application layout or the layout for the resource you created include jquery and the tiny_cms.js file:

  <%= javascript_include_tag 'jquery-1.4.2.min' %>
  <%= javascript_include_tag 'tiny_cms' %>

• Visit /pages of your app

• Use right mouse button for functions related to nodes

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2010 Macario Ortega. See LICENSE for details.