Newsroom

Check this out on Heroku # https://glacial-escarpment-19018.herokuapp.com/

• Newsroom app streamlines the newsroom workflow and gives journalists ability to work online.
• Localize this in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi to use as CMS in Pakistan and India.
• Potential localization in Arabic, Persian and Pashto.
• Target audience for this app is small and medium sized newsrooms and freelance bloggers and journalists.

User stories:

• Reader flow. Reader can read unlimited stores and comment via Facebook, Twitter, disqus account. User can also share the story on their social media accounts.

• Reporter: Reporter can write an article and has ability to CRUD their own articles only.

• News Editor: Editor can CRUD any article and create new article. Editor also has manage panel where they can search of stories and look for all stories.

• Admin can assign user rules into user database(stretch).

Wireframes, ERD and Data Models:

https://github.com/kashifali554/newsroom_app/wiki

Tech

• Front-end: Bootstrap, Sass
• Back-end: Ruby on Rails
• Auth: Devise, CanCanCan
• Other: Social Share, Trix Editor, Disqus comments thread.

Best Code:

if user && user.role == 2
  can :manage, :all
end

if user && user.role == 1
  can :read, :all
  can :update, :destroy, Article do |article|
    article.user == user
  end
  can :create
  alias_action :create, :read, :update, :destroy, :to => :crud
  can :crud, Article do |article|
    article.user == user
  end
end

if user && user.role == nil
  can :read, :all
  can :create, Comment do |comment|
    comment.user = user
  end
end

Future Development ideas

• Make URL Pretty
• Add badges on profiles
• Make tags clickable.
• trending stories with view counts in aside.
• Add more features in Manage panel.

Links

• Kashif Ali: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chkashifali