actsasmanifesto's Introduction

Acts as Manifesto

This is a basic manifesto generator for Ruby on Rails.

Install

Install the plugin using the following command:

script/plugin install git://github.com/akosma/actsasmanifesto.git

If you want, you could rename the “trunk” folder in your vendor/plugins directory, to a nicer name (like actsasmanifesto or something like that).

How to use

./script/generate manifesto

This generates a basic manifesto + signatures model, a controller and some basic views, following the RESTful design mantra. For this reason, in the config/routes.rb file you should add the following:

map.resources :manifestos, :member => { :sign => :post }

After generating the manifesto infrastructure, you can delete the plugin.

Consult the Acts As Manifesto wiki for more information.

Future Improvements

Future versions of the plugin will feature the following:

Users will be able to sign up to the site and manage their manifestos;
Signatures could be validated via e-mail if needed;
Use of RJS to have nice effects on the page;
Change the names of the models generated by the plugin;
Allow Markaby or Textile for the manifesto description and signature comments;
RSS feed for manifesto signatures;
Integrate Akismet for fighting against spam;
Add pagination for comments;
Add prettier CSS default options;
Manifestos and signatures could be private (only to people signed up) or public (available to everyone);