If you want to tweak the table name (to use something other than the default 'posts'), manually adjust both the configuration file and the migration now.

Then migrate the database:

rake db:migrate

Add the following helper to your application layout in the <head>..</head> section. This works alongside effective_pages to include some publisher meta tags.

= effective_posts_header_tags

There are no required javascript or stylesheet includes.

Posts

To create your first post, visit /admin/posts and click New Post.

If you've defined more than one category in the /app/config/initializers/effective_posts.rb initializer, you will be asked to assign this post a category. Otherwise the default category posts will be assigned.

You can schedule a post to appear at a later date by setting the published_at value to a future date.

As well, if you're using the effective_roles gem, you will be able to configure permissions so that only permitted users may view this post.

Category Routes

If config.use_category_routes is enabled in the /app/config/initializers/effective_posts.rb initializer, each category you specify will automatically have a top level route. So posts created in the :blog category will be available at /blog and any posts made in that category will be available at /blog/1-my-post-title.

If disabled, all posts will be available at /posts, with posts for a specific category available at /posts?category=blog and the show routes will be /posts/1-my-post-title regardless of category.

Helpers

Use link_to_post_category(:blog) to display a link to the Blog page. The helper considers config.use_category_routes and puts in the correct url.

Pagination

The effective_bootstrap gem is used for pagination on all posts#index type screens.

The per_page for posts may be configured via the /app/config/initializers/effective_posts.rb initializer.

Authorization

All authorization checks are handled via the effective_resources gem found in the config/initializers/effective_resources.rb file.

Permissions

The permissions you actually want to define are as follows (using CanCan):

can [:index, :show], Effective::Post

if user.admin?
  can :manage, Effective::Post
  can :admin, :effective_posts
end

Search

If you use pg_search then Effective::Posts will be also included on its multisearch by default, allowing you to search across all posts.

Future Plans

There are some obvious additional features that have yet to be implemented:

Tagging
Some kind of helper for displaying a sidebar for the categories
Post archives and date filtering

License

MIT License. Copyright Code and Effect Inc.

Testing

Run tests by:

guard

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Bonus points for test coverage
Create new Pull Request

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Package last updated on 27 Nov 2024

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