leikahing / co-squared

A custom blogging engine written in Ruby - stylized as co²

co-squared's Issues

Create the route and logic for displaying the index page of a basic blog

Literally what it is - hit up http://your-domain.com and get the index listing of your blog. This is something like:

get '/' do |id|
  # do something to get index
  # display page
  # haml :page
end

Create and finalize the User and Role models

Users are the people who are registered with a specific blog. Each user is also associated with various roles (like writer, administrator, moderator, etc. etc.).

User model should have fields for at least the basics:

• user name - for logging in (can default to email)
• email
• first name
• last name
• password - This should be the hash of the password. bcrypt is probably a really good choice here because it's a slow algorithm and should be much more resilient to attack than straight hashing via SHA or what have you.
• active - whether a user is active or not
• creation date - when this user was created
• last_login - keeping track of when this user last logged in

Has a relation to Role. As a user can be bound to many roles. This is a has-and-belongs-to-many relationship.

Role model is going to be rather simple, to start it can probably look like this:

• role_id - some constant ID identifying this role
• name - The user friendly name of this role
• description - An explanation of what this role is

This task does not consider a system that features custom roles, as there is zero driver for such a system at this time.

Fix models.rb and code to generate the models and not clobber existing data

Right now, the models.rb code does not respect pre-existing tables and will clobber them with abandon once we reload the models. Fix the use of DataMapper so it doesn't hose the database.

Switch over to using Padrino

The basic Sinatra/HAML/SASS/etc. experimentation is over, let's move over to Padrino to escape the boiler plate.

Means changing the Gemfiles, at least, and perhaps changing up some of the model code and application base.