Plotline Demo Blog

This is a demo Rails app for Plotline

Feel free to clone the repo and base your own blog/website on it.

Setup

First of all, you'll have to create a directory for your content. I store mine on Dropbox, so that it can be easily synced to my server. For development, though, dropbox is not required. You can start with a very basic structure:

mkdir blog-content
cd blog-content
mkdir media posts pages drafts
echo "---\ntitle: Hello world\ntype: post\n---\n\nThis is my first blog post\n" > posts/"$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')"-hello-world.md

In order to run the app, you'll need: postgres, python and homebrew (mac). Once you have that, the following script will install fswatch/inotify-tools required for monitoring changes in the content directory.

git clone git@github.com:pch/plotline-demo-blog.git
cd plotline-demo-blog
bin/setup

The script will ask you to provide the location of your content directory

• simply paste the absolute path of the blog-content directory created above.

Once it's set up, modify the --source directory path in Procfile and run:

foreman start