This is a Sinatra app, deployed at https://docs.railsbridge.org. The RailsBridge documentation project is home to a few subprojects, including the RailsBridge installfest instructions, which leads students through the various complicated setup instructions for getting Ruby, Rails, Git, etc. installed on their computer (whatever combination of computer, OS, and version they happened to bring to the workshop!), as well as the RailsBridge workshop "Suggestotron" curriculum.
Each subproject (a "site") comprises files stored under the "sites" directory; for instance, the installfest instructions are located at ROOT/sites/en/installfest, while the intro rails curriculum can be found under ROOT/sites/en/intro-to-rails. (The "en" means "English" -- see "Locales" below.)
These files can be in any of these formats:
(If multiple files exist with the same base name, .step
is preferred over .md
, and .md
over .mw
.)
bundle install
bundle exec rake run
If the above fails (say, because rerun
doesn't work on your system), try
rackup
Then open https://localhost:9292 in a web browser, and verify that you can navigate the installfest slides.
To serve sites from "sites/en", use bundle exec rake run
or a vanilla deploy.
To server sites from another locale (say, "es" or Spanish)...
$ SITE_LOCALE=es bundle exec rake run
The server listens on 0.0.0.0:9292
.
Now you have to set up subdomain mappings for the site. If you have Pow, run:
$ echo 9292 > ~/.pow/railsbridge # works for any subdomain
If you don't have Pow, add the following line to /etc/hosts
:
127.0.0.1 es.railsbridge.dev # works for single subdomain
Now you can access https://es.railsbridge.dev:9292
for debugging.
Just make sure the server responds to a locale subdomain: https://es.railsbridge.org
Use a locale
or l
parameter: https://docs.railsbridge.org/?l=es
.
Note that in this mode, links are not rewritten, so if they fail you will have to manually add the parameter again.
Check out CONTRIBUTING.md to see how to join our list of contributors!
The documentation (including anything under the sites
subdir as well as some hardcoded text elsewhere) is licensed under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY, specifically), which means you're welcome to share, remix, or use our content commercially. We just ask for attribution.
The code is licensed under an MIT license, like Ruby itself. Copyright (c) 2010-2014 by RailsBridge.
- StepFile Reference
- Workshop organizers: See https://docs.railsbridge.org/workshop for example slide decks you can use in your opening/closing presentations.