violet_rails is a Ruby on Rails template that implements a web CMS, blog and forum along with a lightweight email client and server. Violet ships with a two tier authorizatiion strategy as well so you can build large applications quickly and easily.
Allow your outreach team to support the forum and blog, while the designers and developers work on the web pages.
Powered by ComfyMexicanSofa and with out of the box support for Bootstrap 4 and jQuery, you can edit HTML templates either with a content first or markup first approach. Create both public and private web pages with ease.
We prefer to stick to HTML, and we don't de-fang your markup either. So be careful:
After configuring the cannonical domain with MX records and a catch all, each of your subdomains will have access to its own emailbox for sending and recieving emails:
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Domain admins have control over which subdomains can be created (via approval) and destroyed. Subdomain admins have full control over their subdomain only.
- database multi-tenancy: Serious SaaS and XaaS apps need to support database multi-tenancy. So if you ship Violet with Postgres you will have schema based multi-tenancy with the option of routing each client at run-time to an external Postgres server. All of this is implemented in a simple way, just by subdomain (eg: design.your-website.com).
- Flexible and code first: The Violet CMS is powered by
comfortable_mexican_sofaand offers the customizability of a Rails engine with full WSIWYG functionality (its recommended that you stick to HTML/CSS/JS for static web hosting). Outside of this, its just Ruby on Rails -- the world is your oyster. - Ready to Deploy: Violet comes with a barebones App Owner UI that helps you hit the ground running by managing subdomain requests. Each subdomain has its own roster of Users and an automatically allocated email-box (eg: design@your-website.com), blog (eg: www.your-website.com/blog) and landing page (www.yourwebsite.com). Granular permissioning for users can be managed at the subdomain level.
After deploying violet, you will be able to connect and setup your cannonical page and user account from the Rails console
- If you are a domain owner (eg: https://yourdomain.com) you can find the Violet SysAdmin at https://www.yourdomain.com/sysadmin or https://yourdomain.com/sysadmin
- Any subdomain name on your domain can be reserved for web hosting, blog and email functionality. For example, registering https://hello.yourdomain.com will automatically generate a website for https://hello.yourdomain.com , an email address at hello@yourdomain.com, a blog at https://hello.yourdomain.com/blog and a forum at https://hello.yourdomain.com/forum
- All these components can be administrated at https://hello.yourdomain.com/admin with granular user permissions
To register a subdomain, visit https://yourdomain.com/signup_wizard For security purposes, this only generates a request-- so the sysadmin will need to approve the subdomain registration at: https://www.yourdomain.com/sysadmin
- If you are the first user in a subdomain, you are conferred maximum permissions
The Demo of violet_rails is deployed on AWS EC2 (using Ubuntu 20.04LTS) & requires some server setup/automation with Capistrano. The steps are outlined in-detail here: https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails/wiki/Deploying-to-EC2-(with-Capistrano)
If you prefer deploying to Heroku, you can view the guide for that here
The local development environment is supported by docker. After installing docker and docker-compose take a look at the development cheatsheet for setting up the development environment along with useful scripts: https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails/wiki/Getting-started-(development-cheatsheet)