WWR - Railsplugin: Comatose

Comatose

= Comatose

Version:: 0.7.1 Author:: M@ McCray Website:: www.mattmccray.com Email:: darthapo at gmail dot com

Comatose is a micro CMS designed for being embedded into existing Rails applications.

It’s intended for simple CMS support. Comatose supports

Nested pages
Versioning
Page markup in Textile, Markdown, RDoc, or easily add your own
Page processing through Liquid or ERb
Generators for easy installation/migration
Completely self-contained within plugin folder

It’s meant to be lean, mean, easily embedded, and easy to re-skin for existing applications. If you need something more, I would recommend looking into Radiant.

For more information, see the ‘Getting Started’ guide: http://comatose.rubyforge.org

Installation

Note: See the 'Upgrading' section if you already have an older version of the comatose plugin installed.

$ ./script/plugin source http://mattmccray.com/svn/rails/plugins $ ./script/plugin install comatose $ ./script/generate comatose_migration $ rake migrate

Open your routes.rb and add the comatose root route at the bottom:

map.comatose_root ''

That's it, you're ready to go! You should be able to browse to http://127.0.0.1:3000/comatose_admin and start adding pages to your CMS. Browsing to http://127.0.0.1:3000/ will render your comatose pages if routing doesn't match any of your controllers.

Upgrading

If you are upgrading from an older version of Comatose (version 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, or 0.6), then you will need to re-install the comatose plugin and run:

$ ./script/plugin remove comatose
$ ./script/plugin install comatose
$ ./script/generate comatose_migration --upgrade --from=VERSION
$ rake migrate

Note: Be sure to set the—from parameter to the version of Comatose you last had installed. Also, you only need to first two digits, including the dot, of the version you are upgrading from. For example, if you’re upgrading from version 0.6.9 you can use:

$ ./script/generate comatose_migration—upgrade—from=0.6

This will create the upgrade migration(s) for you. It just adds the new fields, so you can keep the original migration comatose created.

Extra Credit

This plugin includes the work of many wonderful contributors to the Railsphere. Following are the specific libraries that are distributed with Comatose. If I've missed someone/something please let me know.

Liquid (http://home.leetsoft.com/liquid) by Tobias Luetke (http://blog.leetsoft.com)
RedCloth (http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth) by why the lucky stiff (http://whytheluckystiff.net)
Acts as Versioned (http://ar-versioned.rubyforge.org) by Rick Olsen (http://weblog.techno-weenie.net)

Feedback

I’ve released Comatose under the MIT license. Which basically means you can use it however you want.

Don’t forget to read the ‘Getting Started’ guide located on the RubyForge project site: http://comatose.rubyforge.org/getting-started-guide

If you like it, hate it, or have some ideas for new features, let me know!

darthapo at gmail dot com