Spud CMS

Spud CMS is a CMS Engine designed to be robust, easy to use, and light weight.

Installation/Usage

1. In your Gemfile add the following

    gem 'spud_cms'
   

2. Run bundle install

3. Copy in database migrations to your new rails project

    bundle exec rake railties:install:migrations
    rake db:migrate
   

4. Change ApplicationController to inherit from Spud::ApplicationController instead of ActionController::Base

    class ApplicationController < Spud::ApplicationController
   

5. run a rails server instance and point your browser to /spud/admin

Routing to the CMS Engine

Routing your home page to the CMS engine is fairly straight forward. in your applications application.rb file add a configure block as such

	Spud::Cms.configure do |config|
		config.menus_enabled = true
		config.root_page_name = "home"
	end

Where "home" is the page name you wish to use.

Pages will default render to the 'application' layout of your application. You can change this by using templates to specify base layouts.

Defining Templates / Layouts

Spud CMS has recently changed its template structure. The admin templates area is no longer with us. In Spud CMS templates are defined similar to how an asset pipeline manifest is defined. At the top of your layout files a series of comments can be used to define the name of the template, and the content_for blocks that are editable by the user.

Example:

<%
#template_name: 2 Column Page
#html: Left
#html: Right
%>

Optionally a description can be passed as well as a site_name: default for multisite mode.

Using Liquid Template Engine

Spud CMS utilizes the liquid template syntax engine created by Shopify. This allows you to easily inject variables into your pages in the page editor. Example:

<h2>{{page.name}}</h2>

Using Menus

A lot of cms engines allow you to render your navigation links in a ul block by using your page tree structure. In a lot of cases this is insufficient as some sites have urls that redirect to pages outside of your cms. This is where menus come in. They can be built in the spud admin control panel. In your application layout file or any erb template you can render a ul block like so

<%=sp_list_menu({:id => "navigation",:name => "Main"})%>

This will output a

block for the menu you created in admin named "Main"

Adding Your Own Engines

Creating a rails engine that ties into spud admin is fairly straight forward In your new engine add spud_admin as a dependency and create an initializer inside your engine class as such:

	initializer :admin do
		Spud::Core.configure do |config|
		config.admin_applications += [{:name => "Pages",:thumbnail => "spud/admin/pages_thumb.png",:url => "/spud/admin/pages",:order => 0}]

		end
	end

You can use the layouts provided with spud admin by using 'spud/admin/application' or 'spud/admin/detail' layouts

When creating controllers for the admin panel create them in the Spud::Admin Namespace and have them extend Spud::Admin::ApplicationController for automatic user authentication restrictions.

Testing

Spud uses RSpec for testing. Get the tests running with a few short commands:

1. Create and migrate the databases:

    rake db:create
    rake db:migrate
   

2. Load the schema in to the test database:

    rake app:db:test:prepare
   

3. Run the tests with RSpec

    rspec spec
   

After the tests have completed the current code coverage stats is available by opening /coverage/index.html in a browser.