You can also view the tutorial. Or you can check out the demo.

We are continuously adding to and changing the Simple CMS Plugin so here is a little rundown of what has been changed so far:

Major Changes:

• I have updated to rails 2.0.2 so if you are using an older version you will need to change a line in each of the controllers.

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# Where it has: self.view_paths << File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'views') # Must be Changed to: self.template_root = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'views')

• The acts_as_versioned plugin is now required for the revisions. I added this quite some time ago. I did change the rake task to install this plugin as well as the rest.
• You now have to pass a :prefix if you have one. This is to ensure that all content such as images, media, smiles, etc. work correctly. If your base path is a standard path then you do not need to worry about this.
  For example: I was running 3 rails applications under one domain so it looked like this:
  

  my.domain.com	/blog
  	/forum
  	/demo

  So I would call my Simple CMS content like this for blog:

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<%= render :simpleCMS => "MyBlog", :admin => true, :prefix => "/blog" %>

• Now you can make content viewable and editable from multiple pages by passing :reusable => true. This defaults to false. Your label must be the same in each place you use it. This is very useful for layouts, such as header and footer.
  *NOTE* If you already have content here and you change this variable you will lose all that content as it gives the content a new id and changes the params and how the content is called. For example if I have :reusable set to false and I have content there and I set :reusable to true then it creates content with a different id so I will not be able to use the old content until I change it back to false.

Minor Changes:

• When you click on a revision you are taken back up to the top of the page instead of having to scroll all the way down a list of 100 revisions, clicking on one, and then manually scrolling all the way back up to the top to see if you even picked the right revision
• I have added code highlighting and this requires the coderay plugin, which has been added to the rake simple_cms:install_dependencies, and a coderay stylesheet so you need to add that to your application layout. I have included it in the rake simple_cms:install

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<%= stylesheet_link_tag "coderay" %>

• I have also changed many things in the javascripts inside the tiny_mce editor so it would be safest just to use the rake tasks that are built in:

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rake simple_cms:uninstall rake simple_cms:install

I have updated the tutorial with all the changes as well.

There is also a demo that you can use to play around with it and ask questions.