refinery / refinerycms-blog

The very best blogging engine for Refinery CMS

Refinery CMS Blog

Simple blog engine for Refinery CMS. It supports posts, categories and comments.

This version of refinerycms-blog supports Refinery 4.x and Rails 5.1.x (Ruby 2.2+). To use Rails 4.x / Refinery 3.1.x / Ruby 2.1 or older use the refinerycms-blog "Refinery CMS 3-0 stable branch".

Options:

• Comment moderation
• ShareThis.com support on posts. To enable, set your key in Refinery's settings area.

Requirements

Refinery CMS version 4.0.0 or above (Ruby 2.2 or above).

Install

Open up your Gemfile and at the bottom, add this line:

gem 'refinerycms-blog', git: 'https://github.com/refinery/refinerycms-blog', branch: 'master'

Note: if the refinerycms-page-images extension is also installed, make sure gem refinerycms-blog comes before gem 'refinerycms-page-images'.

Now, run bundle install

Next, to install the blog plugin run:

rails generate refinery:blog

Run database migrations:

rake db:migrate

Finally seed your database and you're done.

rake db:seed

Visual Editor

By default, this extension does not require any particular visual editor. Previously, Refinery was coupled to WYMeditor but this has been extracted to an extension, refinerycms-wymeditor.

If you want to use refinerycms-wymeditor, simply place it in your Gemfile:

gem 'refinerycms-wymeditor', ['~> 1.0', '>= 1.0.6']

Developing & Contributing

The version of Refinery to develop this engine against is defined in the gemspec. To override the version of refinery to develop against, edit the project Gemfile to point to a local path containing a clone of refinerycms.

Testing

Generate the dummy application to test against

$ bundle exec rake refinery:testing:dummy_app

Run the test suite with Guard

$ bundle exec guard start

Or just with rake spec

$ bundle exec rake spec

Additional Features

• To limit rss feed length, use the 'max_results' parameter

  http://test.host/blog/feed.rss?max_results=10

More Information

• Check out our Website
• Documentation is available in the guides
• Questions can be asked on our Google Group
• Questions can also be asked in our IRC room, #refinerycms on freenode

refinerycms-blog's Issues

Needs an RSS feed

Arrow icons missing from parent menu items

Template markup showing up in the browser

I have been seeing markup such as "Posted on {{when}}" and "{{create}}" showing up on the pages. I am using the 0.9.8.6 version of Refinery.

Integration with disqus?

I haven't checked it out much, but it would be nice to replace the basic commenting system with disqus instead.

Couldn't find Page with ID=blog

Hi,

I just followed the install instructions for the blog engine, and it successfully added a 'Blog' link on the home page. Clicking it (localhost:3000/blog) led to an error page:

ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound in PagesController#show
Couldn't find Page with ID=blog

Any clues as to resolution? It might be obvious, so apologies in advance, but it's 1AM here in Australia. Goodnight!

Tags for a blog post

It would be nice to have tags for blog posts.

best way to run specs?

I cloned the repo and tried rspec ./spec but I get the error:

I know this is probably an issue with my rspec setup or lack of knowledge on how to test refinery engines, but I thought maybe I would ask anyway.

/Users/ivan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in require': no such file to load -- spec_helper (LoadError) from /Users/ivan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire'
from /Users/ivan/Development/ruby/refinerycms-link/spec/models/blog_category_spec.rb:1:in <top (required)>' from /Users/ivan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:419:inload'
from /Users/ivan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:419:in block in load_spec_files' from /Users/ivan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:419:inmap'
from /Users/ivan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:419:in load_spec_files' from /Users/ivan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:18:inrun'
from /Users/ivan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:80:in run_in_process' from /Users/ivan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:69:inrun'
from /Users/ivan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:11:in `block in autorun'

blog not use variable approximate_ascii when create slug to post

ver.: 1.3

Key for Teaser in locale file

The new page part "Teaser" was introduced in refinerycms-blog 1.6.2. But there is no key for it in the locale file (config/locale/en.yml), so it can't be translated in other languages.

IMHO this should be added to the locale file:
activerecord:
attributes:
blog_post:
teaser: Teaser

adding a tag to a page breaks Blog/posts#index

I just created a test blog, added my first article, put a tag on it, went to view it and it blew up. If I take the tag off then it works. If I view the page directly via "view this blog post live" then it displays OK even with a tag.

The problem seems to be when viewing the index of articles, not a single article. Here's the error message

beginning of paste <<<<<

Showing /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/refinerycms-blog-1.6.1/app/views/blog/shared/_post.html.erb where line #18 raised:

undefined method `name' for "vim":String
Extracted source (around line #18):

15: <% if (tags = post.tag_list).any? %>
16:

17: <%= t('tagged', :scope => 'blog.posts.show') %>
18: <%=raw tags.collect { |tag| link_to tag, tagged_posts_path(tag.id, tag.name.parameterize) }.to_sentence %>
19:
20: <% end %>
21:
Trace of template inclusion: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/refinerycms-blog-1.6.1/app/views/blog/posts/index.html.erb

end of paste <<<<<<<

Blog Settings: nothing happening

Click on Moderation under Settings, nothing happens.

Localization strange behavior

Last week I examined interesting and weird issue. I have set one primary localization ('ru') for the site. But when I surf to the site for the first time it shows in 'en' localization (menu and content are different). I can refresh, try another browser or even computer (the site is hosted on heroku). Nothing happens. I'm still on the 'en'. Then I log in to refinerycms for the site. I just enter login and password. I don't do anything else => refresh my site and it becomes in 'ru' localization. And it's in russian localization from everywhere — another browser/mac/etc. Then i leave it for a couple of hours and it become 'en' again.
I have tried to disable i18n Translation to have it in one russian localization only. I have set everything related to localization to 'ru' in settings. But the issue still appears.

That's really strange. The site is kranelektro-test.heroku.com
Thank you in advance.

blog not showing up as a tab in the admin section on heroku

I've enabled the gems for news, blogs, themes. They all tested fine in dev mode on local machine. After I pushed up to heroku, however, even though news shows up correctly as a tab in the admin area, but blogs does not. blogs does show up on the website as a menubar item, but there is not an admin blogs tab for creating blogs, nor for managing comments. Also, comments settings do not appear in the settings area.

Does not use the Refinery::Generators::EngineInstaller

This means that it will keep copying the same migrations over and over and generally has lots more code in lib/generators than need be.

Installing gem on 1.9.2: uninitialized constant Syck::Syck

12:17:ruby  → gem install refinerycms-blog
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)
    uninitialized constant Syck::Syck

does not happen on 1.8.7

multiple migration versions when installing refinerycms-blog

I am attempting to install the refinerycms-blog per the
github instructions, but continually run into this error:

tim@ubuntu:~/Sites/SITENAME$ rails g refinerycms_blog
identical db/seeds/refinerycms_blog.rb
create db/migrate/20110303214956_create_blog_structure.rb

create db/migrate/20110303214956_add_user_id_to_blog_posts.rb

Now run:

rake db:migrate

tim@ubuntu:~/Sites/SITENAME$ rake db:migrate
(in /home/tim/Sites/SITENAME)
rake aborted!
Multiple migrations have the version number 20110303214956

My app gemfile includes refinerycms, 0.9.9.4 AND refinerycms-blog ~> 1.2. I have deleted the migration files and reran, but that's not working of course because the generate command is dupping the version number...thanks

Overriding views

Running:
$ rake refinery:override view=blog/∗∗/∗

returns:
Couldn't match any view template files in any engines like blog/∗∗/∗

Other than that the blog engine seems to work fine for me, I've got:
Using rails (3.0.9)
Using refinerycms-base (1.0.3)
Using refinerycms-generators (1.0.2)
Using refinerycms-core (1.0.3)
Using refinerycms-pages (1.0.3)
Using refinerycms-resources (1.0.3)
Using refinerycms (1.0.3)
Using refinerycms-blog (1.6.1)

Did the path change?

Built-in support for recaptcha?

I don't know, maybe it could be a plugin for a plugin, but anyway, it would be nice to have for comments. The signal to spam ratio is very low for most sites.

If anyone else wants this, I could probably fork and implement this relatively quickly.

Tagged Posts path, blank params[:tag_name] shows ugly URL

Now that params[:tag_name] is optional, if the param is blank (due to crazy foreign characters, it would seem), it shows ?tag_name = in the URL, which is just plain horkey.

I'm not sure, off the top of my head, how to solve this. But I can look into it. Just wanted to note the issue, and of course I welcome anyone else to check into it.

Error when creating db with blog engine

hi, guys

While I'm trying to create database with blog engine in Refinery 9.9.7, I got the following error:

-- create_table(:blog_categories, {:id=>true})
    -> 0.0072s
-- add_index(:blog_categories, :id)
   -> 0.0691s
-- create_table(:blog_categories_blog_posts, {:id=>false})
   -> 0.0047s
rake aborted! 
An error has occurred, all later migrations canceled:

Mysql2::Error: Unknown column 'custom_title' in 'field list': INSERT INTO `pages`  (`browser_title`, `path`, `meta_description`, `created_at`, `link_url`, `custom_title_type`, `draft`, `title`, `skip_to_first_child`, `deletable`, `updated_at`, `position`, `rgt`, `custom_title`, `meta_keywords`, `parent_id`, `menu_match`, `lft`, `show_in_menu`, `depth`) VALUES (NULL, NULL, NULL, '2011-03-10 16:32:08', '/blog', 'none', 0, 'Blog', 0, 0, '2011-03-10 16:32:08', 2, 8, NULL, NULL, NULL, '^/blogs?(/|/.+?|)$', 7, 1, NULL)

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

any idea?

best regards,
Ken

Blog comments can become orphaned

If I delete a Blog Post that has comments if I try to view the comment in refinery I get this:
NoMethodError in Admin/blog/comments#show

Showing /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/refinerycms-blog-1.1/app/views/admin/blog/comments/show.html.erb where line #29 raised:

undefined method `title' for nil:NilClass

Extracted source (around line #29):

26: <%= t('.blog_post') %>
27:
28:
29: <%= link_to @blog_comment.post.title,
30: blog_post_url(@blog_comment.post, :anchor => "comment-#{@blog_comment.to_param}"),
31: :target => '_blank' %>
32:

Should comments not be dependent destroy?

[Chrome atleast?] Links do not work properly

Javascript error - Uncaught Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [href$=/refinery/blog/]

couldn't parse YAML at line 1 column 0

After I update from 0.9.9.x to 1.0 I got this error.

Psych::SyntaxError in Pages#home

Showing /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/refinerycms-core-1.0.0/app/views/shared/_footer.html.erb where line #2 raised:

couldn't parse YAML at line 1 column 0

Extracted source (around line #2):

1:

2: <%= t('.copyright', :year => Time.now.year,
3: :site_name => RefinerySetting.find_or_set(:site_name, "Company Name")) %>
4:

Posts should have authors.

This is critical for a company using Refinery CMS that wants to blog. There's multiple users that will be blogging. Currently, I can't see a place to set the author.

Category#show isn't sorting posts by publish_at DESC

joemsak (hubble) will fix

sqlite3 error on creating first user

SQLite3::ConstraintException: users.password_salt may not be NULL

refinerycms 0.9.9.11

Yesterday 0.9.9.10 would not run rails g refinerycms, today it does with0.9.9.11 however this exception occurs when I tried to add the first user to a new app.

i18n problem while viewing post

Here is what I got in meta info row:

Posted on 31 January 2011.
i18n: en.blog.posts.post.filed_in Tech Stuff

This line is okay in post preview:

Posted on 31 January 2011.
Filed in Tech Stuff

Difference in templates:
shared/_post.html.erb:
11. <%= t('filed_in', :scope => 'blog.posts.show') %>

posts/_post.html.erb:
15. <%= t('.filed_in') %>

app/helpers/blog_posts_helper.rb not loaded

Hi,

The method blog_archive_list can not be called.
It appears blog_posts_helper.rb is not loaded.
I've solved it (quickly) because I need this functionality,
by copying the file to my applications app/helpers.

bye,

Steven

Uncategorized posts

It would be nice to have a default category like 'general' or 'uncategorized' and the posts having no category assigned can go to this category.

This way it will be easier to find posts with no categories assigned.

Can not find generator

error report:
$ rails g refinerycms_blog Could not find generator refinerycms_blog.

reported by krongk

Pagination

Is it possible to add page controls to the bottom of the blog index?

Can't get this to work in Rails 3

When I try to do rails generate refinery_blog I get No generator found

Draft blog post cannot be previewed

When logged in, clicking on "view this blog post live" displays the entry as not found

Problem with displaying a specific pos

Hello.
I use Rails 3.
I installed 'refinerycms-blog':
1.) In a Gemfile: gem 'refinerycms-blog', '~> 1.0.rc15'
2.) bundle install
3.) rails generate refinery_blog
4.) rake db:migrate
It works very good, but if I go to any post page - I see HTML tags and content.
I deployed my project to heroku, where you can see it.
http://russlteam.heroku.com/blog/
You can see this problem in a each post in a blog.
For example:
http://localhost:3000/blog/mysql-for-beginners

What can I do to use fully-functional 'refinerycms-blog'?

CSS & Javascript loaded twice

While looking for a reason why the $ function does not work on the blog page, I found a small bug. The default refinery-blog CSS and javascript files are being loaded twice.

blog formatting escaping html

On local dev machine, blog displays nicely on the blog-tab page, but when I click on the blog (read more), it shows all the html formatting as blog content (see below). This does not seem correct.

testing out refinery blog

Posted on 24 October 2010.

Wow

This is a blog posting

with some different styles

Comments

Blog admin tab crashes when 2nd window open to a front-end page from the pages engine

Error:
No route matches {:path=>["about"], :controller=>"admin//pages", :id=>nil, :action=>"show"}

Steps to reproduce (on edge Refinery):

1. ./refinerycms/bin/refinerycms dummy
2. cd dummy
3. Uncomment refinerycms-blog line in Gemfile.
4. bundle install
5. rails g refinerycms_blog
6. rake db:migrate
7. rails s
8. Navigate to http://localhost:3000 and create first user.
9. Open a second tab/window and navigate to http://localhost:3000/about while logged in.
10. Go to first tab/window, click on the Blog tab, and watch the fireworks.

Note that this is not an issue with any of the included engines, the inquiries or news engines, the two custom engines I've created.

Error after installing the blog engine

When I go to "blog" tab immediately after generating and migrating the blog, I get this error:

SQLite3::SQLException: no such table: blog_posts: SELECT "blog_posts".* FROM "blog_posts" ORDER BY published_at DESC LIMIT 30 OFFSET 0

Add sharethis.com link at bottom of post

blog tab issue

Tryng to install refinery_blog I did :

gem 'refinerycms-blog', :git => 'http://github.com/resolve/refinerycms-blog.git'
bundle install
rails generate refinery_blog
rake db:migrate

no error comes up, but the blog tab doesn't show up into admin dashboard.
Only after re-initialize the DB ( rake db:reset ) it shows up ... but you know,
this is not always possible, specially in production ...

blog tab doesn't show up in admin

tags on russian do not work

gem 'rails', '3.0.9'
gem "refinerycms", "~> 1.0.3"
gem 'refinerycms-blog', '~> 1.6.1', :git => 'git://github.com/resolve/refinerycms-blog.git'

ruby - 1.9.2

when I trying to add russian tag like тег

I see:

No route matches {:controller=>"blog/posts", :action=>"tagged", :tag_id=>5, :tag_name=>""}

Extracted source (around line #18):

15:         <% if (tags = post.tags).any? %>
16:           <aside class='tagged'>
17:             <%= t('tagged', :scope => 'blog.posts.show') %>
18:             <%=raw tags.collect { |tag| link_to tag, tagged_posts_path(tag.id, tag.name.parameterize) }.to_sentence %>
19:           </aside>
20:         <% end %>
21:       </section>

Float settings for image insert

It would be nice if refinerycms could add in floating left and right for image insert for page or blog, as this is common for popular blog/cms software nowadays for end user to customize their image in the blog/post.

Thanks!

Needs standard Refinery SEO fields under advanced options

Feature suggestion: API access

• API access:

Use a familiar API like: Movable Type API / AtomPub API / MetaWeblog API / Blogger API for editing with third party clients like MarsEdit.

Would love to help out on this if other people also deem this useful and we can decide on a API.

refinerycms-blog doesn't work if your Rails 3 application is called "blog"

I just came across this issue. I'm using Rails 3.0.7 on Ruby 1.9.2. As the subject line says, if your Rails application is called blog, Rails 3 creates a Blog module for it in config/application.rb that seems to cause a conflict with refinerycms-blog. Trying the generator I get "Refinery is not missing constant Application! (ArgumentError)".

Renaming my application to MyBlog fixed the problem.

teaser helper does not preserve html

I am in the process of integrating a syntax highlighter and noticed that line breaks and whitespace was not preserved on the index page of the blog. I was mainly concerned for the content within "pre" and "code" tags. The show page seemed to render fine.

I traced it back to the teaser helper:

def blog_post_teaser(post)
  if post.respond_to?(:custom_teaser) && post.custom_teaser.present?
    post.custom_teaser.html_safe
  else
    truncate(post.body, {
     :length => RefinerySetting.find_or_set(:blog_post_teaser_length, 250),
     :preserve_html_tags => true
    }).html_safe
  end
end

It seems that the truncate method is not preserving html properly. I had a look at the rails api and I couldn't find a method to support the :preserve_html_tags being passed. In addition, the truncate method states in the documentation that it does not preserve valid html.

Does the blog use another custom truncate method to preserve tags? Is this a valid option? Perhaps something like this would be better?

Thanks!

ActionController::RoutingError in Blog/posts#index

I'm using refinerycms 1.0.3 with refinerycms-blog engine 1.6.2 for a test project. I've added my first blog post with title, body and tags in Bulgarian. Then when I requested Blog/posts#index (/blog) I've got this:

ActionController::RoutingError in Blog/posts#index
Showing refinerycms-blog-1.6.2/app/views/blog/shared/_post.html.erb where line #18 raised:
No route matches {:controller=>"blog/posts", :action=>"tagged", :tag_id=>1, :tag_name=>""}

It seems that :tag_name is empty which is not but filled with string in Bulgarian. When I rename the tag in English there is no error and the post is listed.

ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `id' for "nullam":String)

Get an error using last gems:

gem 'rails', '3.0.9'
gem 'refinerycms-blog', '~> 1.6.1'

[1mSELECT "tags".* FROM "tags" INNER JOIN "taggings" ON "tags".id = "taggings".tag_id WHERE (("taggings".taggable_id = 1) AND ("taggings".taggable_type = 'BlogPost')) AND (taggings.context = 'tags' AND taggings.tagger_id IS NULL)
Rendered /home/lsoave/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/refinerycms-blog-1.6.1/app/views/blog/shared/post.html.erb (228.9ms)
Rendered /home/lsoave/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/refinerycms-blog-1.6.1/app/views/blog/posts/index.html.erb within layouts/application (572.5ms)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 2029ms
ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `id' for "nullam":String):
15: <% if (tags = post.tag_list).any? %>
16:

17: <%= t('tagged', :scope => 'blog.posts.show') %>
18: <%=raw tags.collect { |tag| link_to tag, tagged_posts_path(tag.id, tag.name.parameterize) }.to_sentence %>
19:
20: <% end %>
21:
Rendered /home/lsoave/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/trace.erb (2.8ms)
[35mActsAsTaggableOn::Tag Load (2.7ms)
[0m SELECT tags., COUNT() AS count FROM "tags" LEFT OUTER JOIN taggings ON tags.id = taggings.tag_id AND taggings.context = 'tags' INNER JOIN blog_posts ON blog_posts.id = taggings.taggable_id WHERE (taggings.taggable_type = 'BlogPost') AND (taggings.taggable_id IN(SELECT blog_posts.id FROM "blog_posts" ORDER BY published_at DESC)) GROUP BY tags.id, tags.name HAVING COUNT(*) > 0
Rendered /home/lsoave/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/_request_and_response.erb (17.1ms)
Rendered /home/lsoave/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/template_error.erb within rescues/layout (28.9ms)
(END)

Syntax error on blog install

I'm getting an error after installing the blog engine. The other resolve engines are working fine. This thread was linked, and looks very similar - https://github.com/resolve/refinerycms/issues/457. I am on ubuntu, and have updated gems, using ruby1.9.2 and rails 3.0.7.

Here is the error I get from the homepage after installing the blog engine:

Psych::SyntaxError in PagesController#home

couldn't parse YAML at line 1 column 0
Rails.root: /home/username/dev/apps/rimshott

Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace
Request

Parameters:

{"locale"=>:en}
Show session dump

Show env dump

Response

Headers:

None

problems with psych rendering yaml

I'm getting some problems getting the site to load with the blog plugin installed.

This is the most recent error I'm seeing:

Psych::SyntaxError in Pages#home
Showing /home/tim/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@global/gems/refinerycms-
core-0.9.9.4/app/views/welcome.html.erb where line #1 raised:
couldn't parse YAML at line 17 column 14
Extracted source (around line #1):
1: <% content_for :header, t('.there_are_no_users') %>
2:

3: <%=t('.remember_admin_location')%>
4:

Rails.root: /home/tim/Sites/fpp

I have also seen this one:

Showing /home/tim/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@global/gems/refinerycms-
core-0.9.9.4/app/views/shared/_footer.html.erb where line #2 raised:
couldn't parse YAML at line 17 column 14
Extracted source (around line #2):
1:

2: <%= t('.copyright', :year => Time.now.year,
3: :site_name =>
RefinerySetting.find_or_set(:site_name, "Company Name")) %>
4:

Trace of template inclusion: /home/tim/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-
p180@global/gems/refinerycms-core-0.9.9.4/app/views/layouts/
application.html.erb