Welcome to Bloody CMS

BLoody CMS is a very simple CMS optimised for event organisers written in Rails 3.1. The goal is to build a lot of the common elements needed for running events (ticketing, sponsors, etc) into the system as modules that can be enabled on demand.

Simple installation instructions

Clone the git repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/cbetta/Bloody-CMS.git

Run bundler to install all gems:

$ bundle install --without=production

Copy a new database.yml file:

$ cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml

Run your database migrations:

$ rake db:migrate

Load default settings:

$ rake db:seed

Run the rails server:

$ rails server

Now you can visit http://127.0.0.1:3000 and fill in your site name and Twitter authentication key and secret. You will be sent through Twitter to authenticate your own Twitter account as a first user and admin.

That's it, you're done and can start adding pages!

Deploying to Heroku

First perform the simple installation instructions above.

Next up run the Heroku command to create a new app.

$ heroku create

Now because we are using Rails 3.1 which has a new assets pipeline that's not fully supported by Heroku, we will have to precompile and commit our assets.

$ rake assets:precompile
$ git add public/assets/*
	$ git commit -m "Compiled assets"

Now push your app to Heroku.

$ git push heroku master

And migrate your remote database.

$ heroku rake db:migrate

To speed up you app, add the free memcache add-on on Heroku:

$ heroku addons:add memcache

Boom, you're done. Now you can visit your site's Heroku URL and setup the configuration the same way you did as on local setup.

History

August 27, 2011 - v0.1.0 - Added sponsors module and coincidently finished bloody cms basics for first release to production
August 27, 2011 - v0.0.9 - Pushed events a bit early. Did lots of fixes.
August 27, 2011 - v0.0.8 - Added event module with ticketing
August 23, 2011 - v0.0.7 - Added Twitter avatars and usernames to blog posts
August 23, 2011 - v0.0.6 - Added configuration UI for promoting a user to admin
August 22, 2011 - v0.0.5 - Added the last bits for the blog module
August 22, 2011 - v0.0.4 - Added memcache support for the options model
August 2, 2011 - v0.0.3 - Added installation instructions and made sure it actually works as described
August 2, 2011 - v0.0.2 - Rewritten the configuration of the app to be using the DB and a UI rather than a config YAML file

Roadmap

Allow the admin to sorting the pages and elements in the sidebar
Add a sponsorship module
Add a commenting module
Add a gravatar module for comments
Add a map module
Add a ticketing module that integrates with Eventbrite
Add a links module
Add automatic and manual sharing of new posts to social sites
Allow a site to link back to a parent site

Disclaimer