Mini CMS
I tend to follow a very similar pattern when setting up small websites for people. Basically it’s like this for an example site with three pages. Two controllers, Welcome and Pages.
Any tips?
Anyone on this. Sorry if I'm a little unclear.
Just interested in how others might create a very basic website for people with a backend CMS.
The layout file is where I set out my navigation menus, and I need to edit this if the "client" changes the site structure.
Sometimes I use "tinymce" to allow the client to format text without having to learn basic html.
workflow is roughly.
1. create welcome controller with actions and views for each page 2. create pages scaffolded controller 3. add a page record for each page and some dummy content 4. edit layout for navigation menu 5. edit welcome views to include the page records "content"
Am I missing a trick or two?
In the Learning Rails screencast series, we're building up a mini-CMS as an example. You can download our code and see the screencasts that walk through it. We don't use separate actions for each page, but treat the Page as a restful resource and use the name of the page to find the appropriate page contents. We made a separate "viewer" controller to render the page so we could keep the page_controller as the standard scaffolded REST controller.
http://www.BuildingWebApps.com/learningrails
There's three screencasts posted now, which create the basic Page model and then add user authentication. The fourth screencast, which will be published Monday, allows pages to be set as admin access only and also automatically creates the navigation. We'll be further enhancing it in the next couple screencasts.
Michael Slater www.BuildingWebApps.com
Michael Slater wrote:
In the Learning Rails screencast series, we're building up a mini-CMS as an example. You can download our code and see the screencasts that walk through it. We don't use separate actions for each page, but treat the Page as a restful resource and use the name of the page to find the appropriate page contents. We made a separate "viewer" controller to render the page so we could keep the page_controller as the standard scaffolded REST controller.
There's three screencasts posted now, which create the basic Page model and then add user authentication. The fourth screencast, which will be published Monday, allows pages to be set as admin access only and also automatically creates the navigation. We'll be further enhancing it in the next couple screencasts.
Michael Slater www.BuildingWebApps.com
On Apr 24, 1:34 am, bingo bob <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
Michael,
Your site is a wonderful resource, I listened to the audio stuff this morning and it really helped cement my knowledge.
I've subscribed and I'll be tuning in.
I liked the IDE/simple editor debate. For the record I'm a textmate man, :-).
cheers
bb