soloist

A lightweight sinatra-based cms for small-business sites.

Features

• multiple sites with multiple domain names per site
• administrator basic HTTP authentication
• template-based pages with site-wide assets and content
• site contact information
• faqs and products
• blog posts with simple tags

Updates

0.7.2

• hidden pages (ie. not included in nav)
• put versions and links for soloi.st, sinatra, etc. in footer

0.7.1

• detect unknown model in admin url

0.7.0

• improved separation of core application and admin application by splitting the code into two source files and using the brand-new builder helper in the rackup

0.6.8

• permalinks for posts
• disqus comment support for posts

0.6.7

• add title to pages
• fix tab selection for sub-resources

0.6.6

• add url builders and link helpers
• move selection of current tab in views into admin resources handlers
• move sortable table hook to unobtrusive observer

0.6.5

• Markdown for posts

0.6.4

• basic unit tests for all models

0.6.3

• links to show posts by tag
• honours published flag when displaying posts

0.6.2

• return to originating page for delete, create and update links in admin
• pages and faqs are now drag and drop sortable in admin
• tags for posts
• fix entity escaping in textarea tags

0.6.1

• add basic blog post support
• checkbox support in view helpers

0.6.0

• uses Rack::URLMap and Rack::Auth::Digest
• change @page to @current_page and @site to @current_site
• use block parameters instead of accessing params hash (DRY)

0.5.0

• reworked db:init task for easier population of sample data
• templates for product, faq and job lists
• provide access to current page using @page instance variable
• state_name method to expand states in Site model

0.4.0

• better contained items on forms (assets, logos, etc.)
• add contact information to site attributes

0.3.0

• sinatra 0.9 compatability

TODO

• use hidden pages to clean up multi-purpose posts page, for example: blog page as index (hidden) posts page to list selected pages ** (hidden) post page to show single post
• not found page
• error page
• page redirection for domains... ie. blog.unwwwired.net => www.unwwwired.net/blog
• move site admin subnav to left-hand sidebar
• extend unit tests!
• functional tests!!!
• integration tests!!!
• author accounts for posts
• use something other than haml for the page templates... it's fine for a developer, but doesn't feel right for a cms
• partials to eliminate duplicate code in new and show views
• improved urls for contained items?
• replace the hacked 2.9.0 sequel gem with the next real version
• remove frozen sbfaulkner/rack once Rack::Auth::Digest fixes get onto Heroku

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Author: S. Brent Faulkner brentf@unwwwired.net
License: Copyright © 2008-2009 unwwwired.net, released under the MIT license