tortus / refinerycms-alerts

Simple home page banner alert engine for refinery

Alerts extension for Refinery CMS.

Useful for sites that need to have alert banners go up and come down at certain times.

Usage

# app/decorators/controllers/refinery/pages_controller_decorator.rb
Refinery::PagesController.class_eval do
  before_filter :set_alert, :if => lambda { home_page? }
private
  def set_alert
    @alert = ::Refinery::Alerts.live_alert
  end
end

# app/views/refinery/pages/home.html.erb
<% if @alert.present? %>
  <h2><%= @alert.title %></h2>
  <%= raw @alert.content %>
<% end %>

How to build this extension as a gem

cd vendor/extensions/alerts
gem build refinerycms-alerts.gemspec
gem install refinerycms-alerts.gem

# Sign up for a http://rubygems.org/ account and publish the gem
gem push refinerycms-alerts.gem