PPC Posting Board 2.0

NOTE: ** Archives generated before 2017 should to be run through tools/fix_old_archive.rb before being imported into fresh installations**

Ahoy there!

This is a little project to build a web 1.5 posting board. The community is currently using an ancient bulletin-board system, several members have been extolling the virtues of a PHPbb setup with subforums and whatnot, and I opened my big fat mouth and said "Hey! This looks like a perfect use for the Model-View-Controller design pattern!"

I may come to regret this.

Design documents should all be OS-agnostic, in the doc/ directory.

What to expect:

• Ruby on Rails
• One set of posts, many ways to look at it
• Optional authentication, with options

What not to expect:

• Magic
• Fast development
• Incredibly mind-blowing code

Note: to archive a running T-Board into the usual format, execute include ApplicationHelper; ApplicationController.helpers.dump_posts_in_range(from_date, to_date) and get the resulting string into a file somewhere (Heroku wants base64 and some newlines after this to prevent data loss)

Developers:

• Tomash ( krzysdrewniak@gmail.com )
• Delta Juliette (AKA Captain Vim, Techno.Dann@gmail.com) Development setup

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Please build yourself a new secret key and set the keys refered to in config/database.yml

How to update the archives

• Install mechanize (it's not in the Gemfile)
• ./tools/archive-script.rb 'http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/199610.html' >scrape-output-file 2>scrape.log
• Make sure your instance has a user named "Archive Script" (and note their ID, it'll be important later)
• rake db:post_archive FILE=scrape-output-file LINK_MAP_FILE=link-map-raw.csv
• heroku run rails runner 'include ApplicationHelper; puts(Base64.encode64(ApplicationController.helpers.dump_posts_in_range(Time.parse("YYYY-MM-DD 00:00:00 UTC"), Time.now))); puts("")' > /tmp/t-board-archive
• base64 -d /tmp/t-board-archive > t-board-scrape-file after cleaning out the error messages and ^Ms (and trailing newline) from the output of the above command
• rake db:post_archive FILE=t-board-scrape-file LINK_MAP_FILE=t-board-link-map-raw.csv
• bundle exec unicorn -p 3000 -c ./config/unicorn.rb to start the server
• for y in {2008..2019}; do; for m in {01..12}; do; for p in a b c; do; echo "http://localhost:3000/posts/scrape/$y/$m$p?user_id=N" >> /tmp/urls; done; done; done, where N is the user id of "Archive Script"
• wget -E -k -p --header "Cookie: foo=bar" -i /tmp/urls
• git checkout gh-pages
• ./tools/scrape-output-transform.pl localhost:3000/posts/scrape archive
• ./tools/transform-link-map.pl t-board-august-2018-to-april-2019-link-map-raw.csv archive/t-board-august-2018-to-april-2019-link-map.csv
• ./tools/transform-link-map.pl board-may-2016-to-apr-2019-link-map-raw.csv archive/board-may-2016-to-apr-2019-link-map.csv
• Edit archive/index.html to point to all the new stuff (probably by copy-paste and search-replace)
• Commit and push

Licensing

Copyright (C) 2012 PPC Posting Board 2.0 Team

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.