couch_blog

couch_blog

Rails 4 Blog engine using SimplyStored as CouchDB orm

Implement

Gemfile

A normal Gemfile now would look like:

gem 'simply_stored', github: 'bterkuile/simply_stored'
gem 'cmtool'
gem 'couch_blog'

Custom layout

You may want to use a custom layout, more fitting together with your cmtool website. Therefore implement the following in your app/controllers/application_controller.rb to render your custom created layout at location app/views/layouts/blog.html.slim

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  def couch_blog_render
    @page = Page.find_by_name('blog') || Page.new(name: 'blog', locale: I18n.locale)
    {layout: "blog"}
  end

end

Custom view

To create a custom view, create a file eg: app/views/couch_blog/posts/index.htmlhaml

having your custom content:

- for post in @posts
  .post
    .date
      %span.month= post.date.strftime('%b')
      %span.day= post.date.day
      %span.year= post.date.year
    %h2.title= link_to post.title, couch_blog.post_path(post.id, post.title.to_s.downcase.gsub(/[_\W]+/, '-'))
    .post-body=raw post.body