This plugin enables you to have a simplest articles based on a list structure if you are doing Ruby on Rails development of web applications. With only a handful of features you can create and manage articles that can be used as static pages or as a fragments of your interface such as help texts and instructions to interfaces.

This Ruby on Rails plugin consists of manageable list of articles, article editor and image management interface. In addition it has an industry standard TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor built in.

 

The plugin installs it self automatically:

ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/kwahu/Smallest-Article-Management-Plugin.git

It adds itself at the end of routes.rb:

map.connect '/:id.html', :controller => 'articles', :action => 'show'
map.connect '/:id', :controller => 'articles', :action => 'show'

in that way you can have article paths like:

http://www.mypage.com/article-name.html
http://www.mypage.com/article-name

This Ruby on Rails plugin uses attachement_fu for storing images.

This plugin is SEO friendly. It enables you to define several parameters of your article:

  1. article name
  2. path name
  3. menu name
  4. header name
  5. titlebar name
  6. meta description
  7. meta keywords

You do not have to fill in every field because it can automatically use article name as a source for most of the fields. Of course you should always fill in description and keywords for best results.

Git repository: http://github.com/kwahu/Smallest-Article-Management-Plugin