hepu / forem

The best Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine. Ever.

Forem for Electorate.me

This is a fork of the Forem gem, used in the implementation of forums in Electorate.me

Getting Started

Inside Electorate.me, Forem uses Redis to save the Forem::Category ID's used in the basic categories. Also, it saves the ID for the Forem::Group used for Moderators

Redis is initialized in config/initializers/redis.rb as $redis, in the Electorate.me app.

Retrieve basic ID's used in Forem

To retrieve the basic ID's used in Forem, the following method is used:

$redis.get('key_of_the_id_stored')

Currently, the keys stored are:

communities_category_id
leaders_category_id
general_category_id
moderators_group_id

For example, to retrieve the ID for the Leaders category, you use $redis.get('leaders_category_id')

Initializing Forem in the server

Initializing forem is easy!

Initialize

First, initialize Forem's basics (categories and moderator's group):

bundle exec rake forums:initialize

Create Leaders forums

This command takes the Leadership Positions of every Movement and creates a forum for each one, inside

bundle exec rake forums:create_leaders

Create Communities forums

This command creates the Category forums for each Movement according to its Scope

bundle exec rake forums:create_communities

Create Moderators forums

This command imports the Leadership Users which state is Active of each Movement and recognizes them as Moderators of the Movement's forum

bundle exec rake forums:create_moderators

Clear all content

This command destroys every Forum, Category, Group of the database

bundle exec rake forums:clear

##Setting a user as Superadmin ('Access Denied' message)

If you try to access the Admin Area and the message Access Denied pops up, it's necessary to set the user as Superadmin.

To do this, access the Rails Console in the server and find the User, then set its attribute forem_admin to true and save the User.

Methods applied to the User model

These are the basic Forem's methods implemented in the User model:

forem_name
forem_email
forem_moderator(movement)