appyantra_admin

AppYantra Admin

Rails 3 engine for managing an app's assets, users, pages, blog, SEO and Social Media Integration.

Requirements

Rails 3.1 or later.

Getting started

Add this to your GEMFILE:

gem 'appyantra_admin'

Run the install generator

rails generate appyantra_admin:install

Add this to your Rakefile

# required to skip certain initializers
AppyantraAdmin.rake_running = true

Run the admin migrations

rake db:migrate

Add the list of models that you want to manage through AppYantraAdmin as assets:

# config/initializers/appyantra_admin.rb
AppyantraAdmin.setup do |config|
  # specify the model names that can be managed as assets from the Admin dashboard
  config.assets = [ 'Model1', 'Model2' ]
end

Create an Admin user:

rake appyantra_admin:create_admin email='[e-mail]' first_name='Speedy' last_name='Gonzalves'

Create basic application settings by running:

rake appyantra_admin:setup_admin

Setup Google Analytics by running:

rake appyantra_admin:setup_google_analytics tracking_code='YOUR_TRACKING_CODE' domain='DOMAIN'

If you want to use the default theme for your website then delete the application layout file from your layouts.

Don't forget to delete public/index.html

Now start your Rails server and hit the root url!

Using a Rich Text Editor for text_area input type

AppYantra Admin currently supports CKEditor. If you want to use CKEditor for editing the content of pages then use the following rake task:

rake appyantra_admin:use_rich_text_editor

This task adds a setting for Rich Text Editor and defaults it to CKEditor.

Next, you need to copy the ckeditor directory to "app/assets/javascripts"

Notes

• Download CKEditor from http://ckeditor.com
• For setup please refer to http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Developers_Guide/Installation#Minimum_Setup
• Also refer to the CKEditor Sample — Replace Textarea Elements by Class Name

Project Info

[AppYantra Admin] (http://www.appyantra.com/appyantra_admin) has been created by [Govind Naroji] (https://github.com/gnaroji) with contributions from [Gautam Naroji] (https://github.com/narojigautam).

It is maintained by [AppYantra] (http://www.appyantra.com)

For the Admin UI it uses the free [HTML5 Admin Template] (http://medialoot.com/item/html5-admin-template) taken from MediaLoot.

For the Default Website, it uses the free HTML theme [Aurelius] (http://www.csstemplatesfree.org/aurelius.html) taken from CSS Templates.

License

MIT License. Copyright 2012 AppYantra. http://www.appyantra.com