Saturday 25 July 2009
New Wilderness Feature: Text Editor Preference
Added a new feature to Wilderness CMS system today - a preference that will change text areas from TinyMCE default to Textile, Markdown, Simple Format or plain. Comes with an accompanying helper for views. formatted_text(content) More
Tuesday 05 May 2009
Wilderness CMS Rails 2.3 Engines Plugin
I recently started working on what I thought was going to be an extension on the Bort Rails starter-site idea which I am a huge fan of. My initial idea was to include a default user admin panel but then I kept going and it evolved into something more elaborate. I’m not sure if I’m finished, or how I want it to function... More
Wednesday 10 December 2008 | 2 comments
Translates To French
A quick and dirty plugin for Rails 2.2 English sites that need to provide ActiveRecord translations to French. Highly limited and inflexible, but seems to serve my highly limited and inflexible needs at the moment: a single-user CMS content site managed by an English-speaking person. French translations show on the front end if available, and default to English otherwise. I based it on this post and plugin: http://iain.nl/2008/09/acts_as_translatable_mode... More
Monday 17 November 2008
More thoughts on Acts As Draftable
I was thinking more about the Acts As Draftable plugin. I have been working on an Italian horror site that has various user levels (admin, vice-admin, contributor, users). Different rules apply when different types of users post content. A contributor article must be a approved by a vice-admin or admin user to get published on the front end, but if the admin is not happy with the article and not ready to publish, that higher level user can, instead of approving, choose to ‘give b... More