CBA - Community Base Application Template

• At Github

Issues

Known issues maintained in Github-Issues

Quickstart

I highly recommend to use RVM!

Requirements for CBA:

• A running MongoDB Server
• A rvm gemset for Rails Rails 3.1.0

   curl -o install_cba.rb \
   https://raw.github.com/iboard/CBA/master/install.rb
   ruby install_cba.rb

This will install a fully functional web-application, with user-authentication (incl. omniAuth) on a document oriented, non-SQL, MongoDB/MongoID database. Just ready to be extended by your 'real' application code. As a benefit, CBA will offer two MVCs Page and Blog.

Note: Project's README should be identical to README.textile on Github -- I try hard to keep both versions in synchronized state, but check out the Github-version too.

CBA is forked from Rails3-Mongoid-Devise by fortuity, extended by Andi Altendorfer with

• OmniAuth
• Paperclip
• CanCan
• jQuery

CBA's own implementations

• Models/MVC
  • User
  • Blog
  • Posting
  • Page
• Features:
  • Comments and Attachments for all models
  • i18n enabled (en/de)
  • installation.rb (See: Posting)
  • Configuration in application.yml

Installation

• See: Posting 'installation.rb'
• CBA is in heavy development age, so please read CBA Blog from bottom to top. There are some latest news, not mentioned in this README.

Delayed Jobs

There is a rake-task to start the background jobs

  rake delayed_jobs:work

Unfortunatley DelayedJobs by 'tobi' doesn't work with MongoId.
So I did this my own way. To define new background-workers follow this steps:

1 Define a worker in app/workers (See new_sign_up_notifier.rb)
2 Enqueue new Jobs like shown in app/model/user.rb, method async_notify_on_creation (Source)

Resource 'Page'

Since nearly any website needs some kind of 'semi-static pages' and we need some kind of object to test the application, there is a resource Page with the following features

• Consists of a title and a body
• The body is rendered with RedCloth
• The MongoId of /page/MONGO_ID in the browser-address will be replaced by /p/title_of_the_page with JS.

Testing with Spork

To run autotests you have to start the spork-server and then run autotest command

1. AUTOFEATURE=true bundle exec spark
2. AUTOFEATURE=true bundle exec autotest

To run your unit-tests using spork do

1. bundle exec spork TestUnit --port 8988
2. testdrb -I test test/unit/*rb

Start all at once with thor-task

You can use thor application:run_autotests to start the spork-server and autotest. The shortest way to jump into continuos testing

Layout and Templates

• Edit application.css or 'your_name_given_at_install'.css
• Edit views/layout/application.html or views/layout/'your_name_given_at_install'.html.erb
• Read Posting
• Visit Demo Page

License

See: Freedom

Links

See: Link-page