Governor (named after Rod Blagojevich) is the pluggable blogging platform for Rails, built for people who want to build their blog into their website, not build their website into their blog.
I'm just getting started, but feel free to poke around. I'm sure that when this starts getting functional, I'll write some setup documentation here. And try the specs, they're fresh!
At some point (at least by v1.0), these dependencies will be removed. Sorry about the meantime.
Governor is a gem, so the first thing to do is to add Governor to your Gemfile.
gem 'governor'
Once you've installed the gem into your app, you need to run the generator:
rails generate governor:install
This will add an initializer which allows you some loose configuration of Governor. As Governor grows, the initializer will actually get some teeth. Now you're ready to add a model:
rails generate governor:create_articles [CLASS_NAME]
CLASS_NAME
by default is Article, but feel free to specify something else,
like Post, Blog, whatever. This will add a model, migration, and route to your
app.
Now that you have an article model and a set of routes, you're ready to plug
it into your app. I'd recommend running rake routes
to see what routes have
been added, as they depend on the model name you chose.
The Governor initialization will check if Devise is installed, and will try to Do The Right Thing if it is. If not, it'll yell at you, so be sure to set up your authorization rules in this file.
For now, Governor checks with Devise to make sure someone's logged in before creating an article, and verifies that the logged in user is an article's author before allowing them to edit. You might have your own rules that you'd rather apply. You'll have to wait until a future version if you want something different, sorry.
Less of a roadmap as a politician's promise of what will exist in future versions of Governor:
Until v1.0 (or at least until things start to stabilize), I won't promise anything regarding backwards compatibility. Please let me know if something you were relying on breaks, and I'll do my best to steer you in the right direction or repair functionality.
Governor is just getting off the ground now, so while there's a lot to implement, the infrastructure might be too shaky to support multiple developers. Still, if you're interested in improving this, let's talk.
Copyright © 2011 Liam Morley. See LICENSE.txt for further details.