[ANN] Showcase On Rails CMS v0.1

Rails
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I built out a simple CMS for websites that rely heavily on portfolios.
This covers graphic and web designers in particular, but also other
people with stuff to show off. It’s really easy to customize
progressively, so that some people will only modify CSS, but others
will dig deeper into Javascript behaviors and the Rails view code.

Check it out at http://showcase.kylemaxwell.com/
SVN co at http://svn.kylemaxwell.com/showcase/
then rake migrate up a fresh database, and you’re good to go (/me
waves hand a la Taco Bell commercial)

Features:

  • 100% semantic XHTML
  • Built on Ruby on Rails
  • AJAXified administration
  • Revision management
  • Textile/Markdown-driven editing
  • File uploads and image thumbnailing

As usual, feedback is great; patches are great.aculo.us!

–
Kyle M.
Chief Technologist
E Factor Media // FN Interactive
[email protected]
1-866-263-3261

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Hey Kyle… I checked it out, set up the db, and ran the app. The admin
screens seem to
work fine, but whenever I try to go to a “regular” page I get this
error:

NoMethodError in Showcase#page

Showing app/views/showcase/page.mab where line #0 raised:

(eval):11:in `instance_eval’: You have a nil object when you didn’t
expect it!
The error occured while evaluating nil.title

Extracted source (around line #0):

1: div.navigation do
2: h4 { span @website.pages_title }
3: ul do

thanks

b

PS: I see you’re using markaby (COOL!)… do I need to do some oher
installation stuff for
that?

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Ok, let me check and see what’s going on…

4

Mysql error after rake migrate:

Mysql::Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual
that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use
near
‘ENGINE=InnoDB’ at line 1: CREATE TABLE websites (id int(11) DEFAULT
NULL
auto_increment PRIMARY KEY, keyword varchar(255), title text,
subtitle
text, stylesheet text, behavior text, footer text, pages_title
text,
categories_title text, updated_at datetime) ENGINE=InnoDB

adam

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On 2/23/06, Adam D. [email protected] wrote:

(eval):11:in `instance_eval’: You have a nil object when you didn’t expect

progressively, so that some people will only modify CSS, but others

That’s a pretty standard migration. Are you having trouble with other
migrations? What version of Rails, mysql are you using?

–
Kyle M.
Chief Technologist
E Factor Media // FN Interactive
[email protected]
1-866-263-3261

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On 2/22/06, Ben M. [email protected] wrote:

Extracted source (around line #0):
that?

then rake migrate up a fresh database, and you’re good to go (/me
As usual, feedback is great; patches are great.aculo.us!

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That’s actually how a certain 404 error displays. I just replaced it
with an actual 404 error page (so svn up). The question is now: why
are you getting 404’s? Perhaps it’s a bug in the cache sweeper, or
maybe you went to a page you had previously deleted, but was present
in your history?

–
Kyle M.
Chief Technologist
E Factor Media // FN Interactive
[email protected]
1-866-263-3261

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[root]# rails --version
Rails 1.0.0

[root]# mysqladmin -V
mysqladmin Ver 8.40 Distrib 4.0.13, for pc-linux on i686

-adam

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Kyle,

Your demo looks great but I haven’t been able to run the code in my
Site5
account. I have been able to do the migrations so I know the DBs are up
(checked with phpMyAdmin). But I can’t get anything but a white screen.
No
activity on the rails’ logs but this is what I get from Apache:

[Thu Feb 23 14:07:18 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
“/home/cmsaem/public_html/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running
for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed
off to 600 seconds
[Thu Feb 23 14:02:18 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
“/home/cmsaem/public_html/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running
for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed
off to 600 seconds
[Thu Feb 23 14:02:18 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
“/home/cmsaem/public_html/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 29927) terminated by
calling exit with status ‘1’
[Thu Feb 23 14:02:18 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
“/home/cmsaem/public_html/dispatch.fcgi” (uid 33344, gid 33347)
restarted (pid 29927)
[Thu Feb 23 14:02:18 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
“/home/cmsaem/public_html/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running
for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed
off to 600 seconds
[Thu Feb 23 13:57:18 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
“/home/cmsaem/public_html/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running
for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed
off to 600 seconds

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Adrian M.

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On 2/23/06, Adrian M. [email protected] wrote:

been backed off to 600 seconds
“/home/cmsaem/public_html/dispatch.fcgi” (uid 33344, gid
been backed off to 600 seconds

then rake migrate up a fresh database, and you’re good to go (/me
As usual, feedback is great; patches are great.aculo.us!
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Can you run ./dispatch.fcgi directly? This smells like a permissions
or shebang issue.

–
Kyle M.
Chief Technologist
E Factor Media // FN Interactive
[email protected]
1-866-263-3261

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Kyle,

I fixed most of my problems by moving the data from the production DB to
the
development DB manually. Then I was able to see the instructions on the
homepage and actually login. the only thing I see missing is that it
looks
weird on Firefox/Win (all the edit/delete/etc links mess up the ) but
that
is just cosmetic.

Hope this helps,

AEM

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Thanks Adrian, I’ll look into the database issue. I’ve also been
meaning to redo the css for the account templates. It’s kinda on the
back burner tho. I’ve been figuring that many/most users will
customize and rebrand it.

-Kyle

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Kyle,

thanks for the pointer. It was a shebang issue. One bug I found though
is
that if you run in development mode the migration creates a bunch of
empty
records (Rails 1.0.0, MySQL 4.1.14) but if I force it to run in
production
there is data in those rows. Also, in development or production when
going
to the site now I get a ‘Please create a page’ message but I didn’t know
where to go to do that until I looked into the production DB in the
pages
table content. Now when I go into /account I can’t login with
admin/12345.
It comes back to the same page with no errors or any kind of message.
You
can check it out here (I will leave it open for a while):

http://cms.aemadrid.com/account/login

Hope it helps,

Adrian M.

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Kyle,

Thanks to you. I guess you are right about the CSS. I would personally
change the CSS and even the layout.

Thanks again,

AEM