ShinyCMS

Today is my flatmate’s birthday! And it was either name this month’s release for that, or call it ‘the unemployed layabout release’ - I finished my previous job on Friday (after 5 years!), and haven’t quite sorted out the next job yet :-o Anyway, for ShinyCMS, this month was mostly about finishing up the View Components conversion in the admin area that I started last month - although route partials got a complete rewrite along the way.

Also, controllers/mailers/components/etc in the feature plugins no longer inherit their common/integration behaviour from Base classes in the core plugin, they now include it from modules instead. I think this looser coupling gives better boundaries between the plugins (as enforced by Packwerk, of course!)

Also also, I got an unexpected PR with some documentation fixes this week, which cheered me up loads (thanks Paul!) - leaving a job that lasted that long is kinda weird emotionally, so some friendly collaboration with a stranger was much appreciated :)

Feature list at end of October 2019:

• Pages
  • Pages
    • Layout driven by page template
    • Generates element stack (editable content) based on template used
  • Sections
    • Can be nested to any depth
  • Templates
    • Uses ERB file to render page
    • Generates element stack from ERB page on creation
      • Specifies which bits of content will be editable on any page created using this template
  • Pages and sections slugs
    • Auto-generated if left blank
    • Checked against controller URL namespaces if page/section is top-level (/page or /section rather than /this/page and /that/section)
• Users
  • Powered by Devise
    • All standard features enabled except OAuth
    • Login/logout, register, confirm registration, change password, forgot password, etc etc
• Admin area
  • Requires login
  • Checks allowed IP list
• i18n (internationalisation) support

The project also has some docs beyond the README now... including a Code of Conduct.

Feature list at start of project / start of October 2019:

• Basic page features
  • Pages, sections, and templates
    • Page and Template elements not implemented yet
  • Display on main site, add/edit/delete in admin area
  • Very basic 404 handler
• Separation of 'admin area' (not secured yet, no user/login system) from 'main site' (the hosted content-managed site)
  • Separate base controller and layout for admin area