AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms

Alchemy is a powerful, flexible and user centric Rails CMS.

Ignacio Palacios

@NachoPal

cache(element) do
= element_view_for(element) do |el|
.title
```
= el.render :title
```
.text
```
= el.render :text
```
.thumbnail
```
= el.render :thumbnail
```
`

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

Ah, ok. Is a picture assigned? Is the assigned picture large enough? > 100x100

Ignacio Palacios

@NachoPal

ooooh

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

three tildes ~~~ is easier then three backticks

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Ignacio Palacios

@NachoPal

preprocess_image_resize: 50x50

it's why....

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

Yep

Ignacio Palacios

@NachoPal

thanks a lot @tvdeyen

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

Hi all, currently researching a number options for a cms I need to build for project. Any thoughts on how difficult it would be to build a custom Essence that gets images from an API? So instead of having the file upload window you would get a search field that allows you to search the api and after that select one of the results

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

It's doable in a couple of days

A custom essence is just a plain Active Record Model. Building the UI will be the most time consuming part.

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

Ok so the image picker on the PictureEssence is just javascript that fills the form?

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

Yes

It uses the Admin::EssencePicturesController#assign endpoint. That connects the picture with the content.

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

Great will give it a go over the next couple of days.

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

An other question; is there any support for creating something like a table of contents? So Given a certain page all child pages are listed and linked to? If not would that be a useful contribution?

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

A sitemap?

We always custom code this, because it's so easy

Jan Rieger

@jrieger

could be done using render_navigation and the from_pageoption

Joris van Rooij

@jorrizza

@dennisvdvliet Check out https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/blob/master/app/views/alchemy/navigation/_renderer.html.erb for some pointers.

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

Alchemy does not ship with any basic elements. It's complete empty. That's intended ;)

Joris van Rooij

@jorrizza

It's the template render_navigation uses, by the way.

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

@tvdeyen I like that. So additional features are either custom coded into a project or made available as a gem?

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

It depends. If it's an admin feature, let's talk. If that's in the kind of: "Fancy JS Slider XY", then not ;)

The frontend is yours, have ever, will ever, 100%. Alchemy will never ever tell you, what to use and how to use. That means you have to build everything from scratch, everytime. Some basic stuff, like navigation renderer get's shipped, though. But even that views are overwritable in your app.

That's core, though. We can (and maybe should) provide some gems, with useful basic stuff. And even themes, but not in the core installation.

Like this one https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy-demo_kit

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

That makes perfect sense to me. 99 out of a 100 times if you need a CMS you want a custom frontend for branding etc.
Maybe a boilerplate theme, that just shows how to build one.

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

Yes, that's the Demo Kit

https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy-demo_kit

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

Great, very usefull!

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

Called them kit, like chemestry kit (hence the name ^_^)

Maybe we could add more of them in the future.

Bootstrap based ones, for instance

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

Just to put my questions in some perspective. I'm currently working on a project for Europeana (http://europeana.eu/portal/). The goal of the project is to rebuild their "Exhibitions" product (http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/).

Since Europeana is paid for by the European Commission there is a strong wish to use as much opensource as possible and to contribute where possible. So currently I'm doing some research on different CMSes en their community.

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

We love contributions.

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

I already found a lot of really good parts in alchemy. What is the worst part of it? Or the part that could use the most love?

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

Publishing changes

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

You mean like revisions?

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

Currently we use the Rails caching mechanisms to "store" the current published version of a page. That's aweful for pages with lots of moving stuff

Yes, revisions/versions would be great. Personally I'm currently working on that, so will have this soonish. But contributions are welcome. We are a small team, so things move slow.

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

No problem, is there already a branch for revisions. Or any thoughts on where I can help?

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

No, only some private prototyping stuff. Will publish, if I made my mind on how this could be best done. But would love to hear some thoughts from others.

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

Happy to pitch in, so keep me posted

Thomas von Deyen

@tvdeyen

I will

Dennis van der Vliet

@dennisvdvliet

Hi all, been playing around with alchemy for a couple of days right now and I'm impressed how easy it is to customise. Adding a new essence is quite easy.

What I'm not 1005 sure about is how to implement an essence that is almost the same as an existing one. In this case I want to do create EssenceFulltext which is like EssenceRichText but with the tinymce editor. Best to create a new Essence for this from scratch or inherit from the EssenceFullText?

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