Venice

Where art meets technology.

v e n i c e — website boilerplate and blog implementation based on Character library. It's used as foundation for new Rails projects or quick prototypes.

Homepage: https://github.com/alexkravets/venice

Installation

It assumes you have a machine equipped with Ruby & Mongodb.

1. Install the Venice gem using the RubyGems package manager:

gem install venice-chr

2. Then kick off a new project & start local server:

venice new your-project-name
cd your-project-name
venice setup
rails s

Default admin account is user@example.com:password.

Deploy to Heroku

1. Create Heroku account

• Heroku | Sign up

2. Login to Heroku

heroku login

3. Generate local ssh keys (if you don't have ones)

• Generating SSH keys

ssh-keygen -t rsa

4. Add local ssh keys to Heroku

• Heroku | Managing Your SSH Keys

heroku keys:add

5. Choose available APPLICATION_NAME on heroku, check using url APPLICATION_NAME.herokuapp.com

6. Create AWS account

• AWS | Sign up

7. Create access KEY and SECRET for AWS account

• AWS | Getting Your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key

8. Add AWS S3 service to your AWS account

• AWS | Console

9. Pick REGION for Heroku application and S3 bucket: us-east-1 (default) or eu-west-1

• Heroku | Regions
• AWS | S3 Regions

10. Deploy application to Heroku

venice deploy heroku APPLICATION_NAME [REGION]
bin/heroku/add-s3 KEY SECRET BUCKET [REGION]

IMPORTANT: Default admin account: is user@example.com:password. After deploy is finished, please login and create a new account, then remove default one.

Deploy to Digital Ocean

1. Create Digital Ocean account

• Digital Ocean | Sign up

2. Generate local ssh keys (if you don't have ones)

• Generating SSH keys

ssh-keygen -t rsa

3. Add local ssh keys to Digital Ocean account

pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• Digital Ocean | Security

4. Create Ubuntu 14.04 droplet, use Add your SSH keys option

• Digital Ocean | Create Droplet

5. Get DROPLET_IP

• Digital Ocean | Droplets

6. Deploy application to Digital Ocean

venice deploy digital-ocean DROPLET_IP

IMPORTANT: Default admin account: is user@example.com:password. After deploy is finished, please login and create a new account, then remove default one.

Under the Hood

Venice is based on a bunch of open source gems. You might be interested to have a look into those to get better understanding of how things do work inside:

• Character: Powerful responsive javascript CMS for apps
• Formagic: Building forms with CoffeeScript
• Journal: Posts and pages implementation with templates and CMS modules
• Tape: Basic RSS reader that integrates into CMS
• Ants: Utility gem with helpers and concerns that are used on the backend and CMS
• Loft: Media assets manager for Character CMS
• Mongosteen: An easy way to add CRUD actions for Mongoid models
• Devise: Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute a feature or bugfix: Thanks! To make sure your fix/feature has a high chance of being included, please read the following guidelines:

1. Fork the repository
2. Make your changes
3. Push your branch to your fork
4. Post a pull request.

Thank you to all the contributors!