Development Guide

Software Dependencies (OS X)

$ brew install postgres redis imagemagick@6 pkg-config

Setup

$ bundle install
$ npm install
$ cp config/application.yml.example config/application.yml
$ cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
$ rake db:setup dev:fake
$ rails server

Tasks

• rake dev:fake[model_name,count]

  dev:fake to generate fake data for all model, dev:fake[course,3] to create 3 fake courses (available parameters: author, post, speaker, category, course, faq)

Coding Rules

Generate Admin Pages for Models

For example, to generate admin pages for Post model:

$ rails generate model post title content:text
$ rails generate scaffold admin/post title content:text --migration=false --parent=post

Schema Updating

1. Generate migraion file
2. Update facotry
3. Update _form.html.erb, show.html.erb and index.html.erb in admin pages.

Assets

Assets are managed by gistyle framework (DOM-based routing of Javascript), please follow the convension to keep your code clean. Do not mess them up with view files as much as possible.

Principle of Least Gems

Do not easily install gems unless you are familiar with them, generally, functions can be almost accomplished by Rails it self, so think twice before doing.

If you don't like the rules above, you are welcome to challenge @tonytonyjan.

Internationalization for Database Content

You can define which models and columns to be translated in Translation::AVAILABLE_MODELS, for example:

# app/models/translations
class Translation < ActiveRecord::Base
  AVAILABLE_MODELS = {
    Speaker  => [:name, :summary],
    Video    => [:title, :summary, description: :redactor],
  }
end

The last element of array can be a Hahs object, keys are column names and values are form field types which correspond to columns, available valies are string (as text field), text (as text area) and redactor (as WYSIWYG editor).

Contact

• [email protected]