Rails 3 Project: 'userbase'

This RAILS3 application may be used as a starting-point for your application. It defines MVCs for

- User (with devise, cancan, omniauth)
- Postings with multiple attachments
- Episodes to embed HTML5- and YouTube videos
- Galleries

Getting Started

Clone from Github

git clone git://github.com/iboard/userbase.git [PATH_OF_YOUR_CHOICE]

Configuration

Copy sample configuration files to live files

cp config/mailserver_setting.rb.sample \
config/mailserver_setting.rb

do the same thing with all *sample-files and edit this files to fit your needs

Most of the configuration can be done in 'config/application.yml' for each environment.

In order to use rake taks deploy:dump_db

mkdir db/dump

Customize

Static Pages

create the following files in public/static_pages

• header.html ... used at top of application.html.erb
• prefix.html ... displayed at top of application.html.erb
• welcome_right.html ... displayed at the right sidebar of application.html.erb
• footer.html ... used at the bottom of application.html.erb
• about.html ... displayed with welcome#about
• episodes.html ... displayed at top of episodes#index
• legal.html ... displayed at welcome#leagal
• welcome_activity.html ... displayed at welcome#index

There is no need to restart the server when you make changes in this files.

Bundle

bundle install

Create the database

rake db:migrate

Start your engine

rails server

The first user becomes admin automatically

Sign up your first user and then visit <code>/users</code>. Admin-role will be added to this user automatically.

Dec 14, 2010 - Andreas Altendorfer <andreas@altendorfer.at>

More Information

• Blog and online installation of userbase
• PivotalTracker