Re:Desant - Open source landing pages system
by nu7hatch on Monday July 23, 2012 @01:42PM
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Graphing is made with d3 and geo extension - learning how to use it was one of my goals for this app, it looks nice so far but doesn't have all features i wanted to implement, though.
Deployment isn't that complex, app is prepared for heroku and actually goes with few commands:
heroku app create yourapp
git push heroku master
heroku addos:add cleardb:ignite
heroku config:add ADMIN_LOGIN='admin' ADMIN_PASSWORD='generated_password_hash'
heroku run rake db:migrate
In case of frontend, it's disabled for this demo to prevent users from posting their emails - admin area contains only dummy auto-generated data. If you install the app on your own it will show proper, working front page.
Is there a way to see the front-end or how to submit entries? http://demo.desantapp.com/ is a blank page.
I'm building something similar for a well known fashion brand right now, shame I didn't see this a few weeks ago.
Deployment looks a little complex for the average business user who would get the most value out of this, but I'm not sure how/if you can simplify deploying a Rails app to where the average non-tech person can do it (does Heroku or similar have an easy way to click "Fork" and get started?).
Edit: Some useful things I've been using for my similar project are the Flot javascript charting library and the datatables.net AJAX table plugin.