Attorney

Easily define and mount Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and any other static page to your Rails app.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'attorney'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install attorney

Usage

Mounting the engine

First, mount the engine like any normal Rails engine. In config/routes.rb:

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  mount Attorney::Engine => '/legal'
end

This will add all the routes coming from the gem appended to the /legal path. Keep in mind that you can rename this anyway you want in your app, not necessarily /legal.

Installing migrations

Now, you will need to install the migrations by running the following command:

$ bin/rails attorney:install:migrations

This will copy a migration file to your application. When ran, the migration will create a table named attorney_documents which is where all your Attorney related content will be stored.

Admin section

Attorney comes with a simple admin section for managing your documents. The admin section uses a simple HTTP Auth for authorizing users. You should create two ENV variables for setting the credentials:

ATTORNEY_HTTP_AUTH_NAME
ATTORNEY_HTTP_AUTH_PASSWORD

By default, auth name will be attorney and password will be secret. Please make sure to change those in production.

Creating documents

After running the migrations, you should be ready to start creating your first documents. Start your server and navigate to /legal/admin/documents. You should see a basic CRUD for creating documents. Just follow the steps and start creating your docs.

Slugs

When you create your first document, you'll notice that there's a slug field in the form. A slug is no more than a short human friendly name that serves as an identifier for your documents.

For example, if you have a Terms and conditions document, it might make sense to use a slug named terms-and-conditions. This will later be used to construct the URL that your users will have access to, like /lega/terms-and-conditions.

Rich Editor

Attorney relies on CKEditor 4 to provide a great Rich Editor for your document's content. This is a very flexible editor which will allow you to add titles, headings, bullet points and more. Check the examples in the link above to see what it is capable of.

Here's a sample image of the Attorney editor:

Publishing documents

You just need to check the publish checkbox and your document will be publicly accessible.

Every document is accessible through it's slugged URL. For example, if you have a terms-and-conditions document, then you should be able to see it by going to /legal/terms-and-conditions in your website. It's really as simple as that.

Configuring layout

Attorney will attempt to use the application layout as default for displaying documents. If you need to use a different layout you can do it by adding the following configuration in config/initializers/attorney.rb:

Attorney.application_layout = 'your_own_layout'

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/cedarcode/attorney/ )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

See the Running Tests guide for details on how to run the test suite.

License

This project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.