Shane Smith

Looking for parameters settings on a hst component

2009-08-20T10:48:00.001+02:00

Finding all components with a certain parameter setting,
You can use in cms/repository:
//*[@hst:parametervalues='value']

Removing meta files

2009-08-19T15:59:00.001+02:00

Note:
Removing meta.xml files for a gallery import from a dav export:
find . -iname '*.meta.xml' -exec rm '{}' \;

HippoOnRails: Experiment 2

2009-08-05T22:40:00.015+02:00

Introduction

In this experiment I'll show you how you can set up your own application within 15 minutes, with Hippo on Rails.

Prerequisite

For this to work you will need to have set up a working HippoOnRails example project.

Start up

Start the cms: mvn jetty:run-war

Open up the console and add another node to the root node, call it ToDos

Start the ruby server: jruby script/server

Next open up a console and generate the code with the normal ruby scaffold:
jruby -S script/generate scaffold todo deadline:date title:string description:text

Open up the model and extend the todo model from the jcr, add the columns (plus id column) and the table name, it should end up looking link this:
The set_new_record method is necessary to edit the node values, instead of creating new values each time. This is a result of the hack were using to set up this experiment.

Don't forget to ad an id column, rails needs this to create the urls for your model.

Now fire up your webbrowser once again, point it to http://localhost:3000/todos, and see your results.

This is it, it's this easy to set up a very basic application in HippoOnRails.

If you have any problems setting this up, don't hesitate to ask for help with your HippoOnRails experiment on our forum.

Hippo on rails

2009-07-28T07:00:00.027+02:00

an experiment

Intro

My employer, onehippo, challenged me to create a Ruby on Rails demo connecting to the Hippo JCR repository. So I took the two examples from day.com and tweaked them into one file until I had a working example.

Preparation

To run the example application you will need to install jruby and some java library files, the onehippo cms and the hippoonrails example application.

To download and install jruby and rubyonrails, follow this tutorial.
You will also need some of these jars in your jruby/lib dir.

If you don't have a hippo repository, then download the hippo quickstart war file.

svn checkout http://forge.onehippo.org/svn/hippoonrails/tags/phonebook_1_0_1/

Getting everything to work probably took some time. If you have any questions or need some help, don't hesitate to ask them on the hippoonrails forum

If you are still here, then the next few steps should be a breeze. :-)

The example hippoonrails application

First go to your cms (quickstart) directory and run it with: mvn jetty:run-war

Go to your cms console (http://localhost:8080/cms/console) select the root node and add the node people (nt:unstructured) needed for the example application

Next go to your hippoonrails example application and start the webbrick server: jruby -S script/server
Then fire up your webbrowser and go to http://localhost:3000/people

You should be able to create a new person, edit and delete it.

That was easy now, wasn't it?
Next stop, set up your experiment with scaffold and the basewithouttables/jcr connector hack.