This gem makes it easy to apply the look and feel found in InSTEDD applications.
gem install instedd-rails
gem 'instedd-rails'
Your application layout in app/views/layouts/application.html.erb should look something like this:
<% content_for :navigation do %>
<%= section "Home", root_path, :home %>
<%= section "Tour", tour_path, :tour %>
<%= section "Community", community_path, :community %>
<%= section "Help", help_path, :help %>
<% end %>
<% content_for :right_menu do %>
<ul class="RightMenu">
<%- if user_signed_in? %>
<li>
<div id="User">
<%=current_user.email%><br><br>
<div class="container">
<ul>
<li><%= link_to 'Settings', edit_user_registration_path %></li>
</ul>
<hr/>
<ul>
<li><a href="mailto:support@instedd.org?subject=[<%= application_name.underscore %>-bug]">Report a bug</a></li>
<li><%= link_to "Sign Out", destroy_user_session_path, :method => :delete %></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<%= link_to '', edit_user_registration_path, :class => 'fsettings' %>
</li>
<% else %>
<li>
<%= link_to "Create account", new_user_registration_path, :class => 'fedit' %>
</li>
<li>
<%= link_to "Log in", new_user_session_path, :class => 'fuser' %>
</li>
<% end %>
</ul>
<% end %>
<% content_for :footer_links do %>
<a href="<%= root_path %>">Home</a>
<% end %>
<%= render :file => 'layouts/instedd_application' %>
To specify the breadcrumbs, in your controller:
class YourController < ApplicationController
def index
@show_breadcrumb = true
add_breadcrumb 'Home', home_path
end
end
Read more about the breadcrumbs_on_rails gem.
To render tabs in the view:
<ul class="tabs top">
<%= tab "Overview", overview_path %>
<%= tab "Settings", settings_path %>
</ul>
You can use the INSTEDD_THEME environment variable to use a different url for the theme. For example:
INSTEDD_THEME=http://localhost rails s
If you have the platform-common project checkout out locally you can serve it with this command line:
sudo python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80
(be sure to run rake in that project before serving it)
To make a change to the project without having to commit to check the results,
you must tell your application to get the gem from your local hard drive.
This can be done modifying your app's Gemfile to point to where you have this gem:
gem 'instedd-rails', :path => /path/to/this/gem
and then running bundle install.