Slices CMS

In-house CMS of With Associates.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Slices requires Ruby, MongoDB, and ImageMagick.

We suggest installing Ruby using ruby-install:

$ ruby-install --latest ruby

Install MongoDB and ImageMagick with Homebrew:

$ brew install mongodb ImageMagick  # this can take a while

Generating a Slices Project

We'll need to create a Rails project:

$ gem install rails -v 3.2.22
$ rails _3.2.22_ new mywebsite -JOT
$ cd mywebsite

Add Slices to the project’s Gemfile:

gem 'slices', '~> 2.0.0'

Run bundler:

$ bundle install

Run the generator and follow the instructions to configure Slices for the first time:

$ rails generate slices:install

At the end of this process we should have a new Slices project with a git repository created, gems installed, database seeded and ready to run:

$ rails server

Visit http://localhost:3000/admin to begin using Slices.

Generating Slices

The quickest way to create a Slice is to use the generator. In this example we're going to create a Slice called title_body with title and body fields.

$ rails generate slice title_body title:string body:text

The syntax is field_name:field_type.

This command will create a new folder called title_body within apps/slices, containing the required Ruby file, the Handlebars templates for the Admin view, and the HTML for the front-end.

Slice Field Types

Field Type   | Best for               | HTML Control
-------------+------------------------+--------------------
string       | Single lines of text   | Text input
text         | Multiple lines of text | Textarea
boolean      | Settings               | Checkbox input
date         | Dates                  | Date input
datetime     | Times                  | Datetime input
attachments  | Files and images       | Attachment composer
page         | Links to other pages   | Internal link field

An example of a complicated Slice:

$ rails generate slice carousel title:string gallery:attachments link:page

License

Slices is released under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2016 With Associates.