Meta Fields

You can hide some of the 'meta' information fields in the admin if you'd like by adding the string names of the fields to hide in the configuration block:

config.hidden_meta_fields << 'keywords'

The supported meta fields that you can hide are:

• keywords
• parent -- Note: A page can't be moved without this
• filter
• preview

Page Caching

Page caching is enabled, by default, for comatose pages. Pages will only expire when you edit/delete them from the comatose admin. To remove all cached pages use the 'Clear Page Cache' command in the admin.

You can override page caching per mount point by sending :use_cache=>'false'. It can also be overridden globally by using the config setting:

config.disable_caching = true

Fragment Caching

Versions 0.5+ support fragment caching of inline rendered content. You can instruct comatose not to use the fragment cache by sending :use_cache=>false like this:

<%= render :comatose=>'path', :use_cache=>false %>

Oh, and be sure to set ActionController::Base.fragment_cache_store in your environment.rb file:

ActionController::Base.fragment_cache_store = :file_store, File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'tmp', 'cache', 'fragments')

Note: Caching will automatically be disabled if you send page parameters via the :locals hash.

Data Migration

A lot of times you'll create pages in development that you want to transfer to production without having to do the old copy-n-paste dance. To help accommodate this, comatose comes with two rake tasks just for this purpose.

Page Export

By running:

$ rake comatose:data:export

You will get a db/comatose-pages.yml file with all the pages in your active database.

The FROM environment variable is the page path starting point. It will only export the pages from the page at path ENV[FROM] down. If you don't specify FROM, it default to the homepage ''.

$ rake comatose:data:export FROM=faq

You can specify the output file if you don't want to use db/comatose.yml or you want to export multiple branches by defining the TO_FILE environment variable:

$ rake comatose:data:export TO_FILE=db/other-pages.yml

You can, of course, mix and match these:

$ rake comatose:data:export FROM=site-help TO_FILE=db/help-pages.yml

Page Import

The import process is just like exporting...

$ rake comatose:data:import

This loads the pages from db/comatose-pages.yml into your active database.

To import somewhere other than the page tree root, you can specify the TO environment variable:

$ rake comatose:data:import TO=faq

You can also specify a page.yml file other than the default by setting the FROM_FILE environment variable:

$ rake comatose:data:import TO=help FROM_FILE=db/help-pages.yml

Keep in mind that task loads environment.rb, so you'll probably want to specify the RAILS_ENV like this:

$ RAILS_ENV=development rake comatose:data:export
$ RAILS_ENV=production rake comatose:data:import

Or...

$ RAILS_ENV=development rake comatose:data:export FROM=help
$ RAILS_ENV=production rake comatose:data:import TO=help

Multi-User / Limited View

It's possible to limit the view of a user to a certain sub-branch, or sub- branches, of the page hierarchy. You define the config.admin_get_root_page setting to return a ComatosePage object, or an Array of ComatosePages.

This example defines both the config.admin_authorization and the config.admin_get_root_page settings:

Comatose.configure do |config|

  # Includes AuthenticationSystem in the ComatoseAdminController
  config.admin_includes << :authenticated_system

  # Calls :login_required as a before_filter
  config.admin_authorization = :login_required

  # Returns different 'root paths'
  config.admin_get_root_page do

    if current_user.role == 'XXXX' # This depends on your system
      Comatose::Page.find_by_path( 'site/help' )

    elsif current_user.role == 'YYYY'
      # Returns multiple 'roots'
      [
        Comatose::Page.find_by_path( 'site/help' ),
        Comatose::Page.find_by_path( 'app/faq' )
      ]

    else
      Comatose::Page.root

    end
  end

end

Using ERB Instead of Liquid

In your configuration block, set the following:

config.default_processor = :erb

Now it will use ERB for text processing instead of Liquid. There are a few minor differences in the context to keep in mind. For example, instead of using page.has_keyword.key, you can use the more ruby-like page.has_keyword? key.

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