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https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails
an app engine for your business. Seamlessly implement business logic with a powerful API. Out of the box CMS, blog, forum and email functionality. Developer friendly & easily extendable for your next SaaS/XaaS project. Built with Rails 6, Devise, Sidekiq & PostgreSQL
https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails
blog cms ember emberjs etl-automation etl-framework etl-pipeline forum multi-tenancy multitenancy rails ruby ruby-on-rails rubyonrails saas saas-boilerplate template violet-rails wordpress-replacement xaas
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an app engine for your business. Seamlessly implement business logic with a powerful API. Out of the box CMS, blog, forum and email functionality. Developer friendly & easily extendable for your next SaaS/XaaS project. Built with Rails 6, Devise, Sidekiq & PostgreSQL
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails
- Owner: restarone
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-04-03T18:02:08.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-09-09T00:20:31.000Z (25 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-09-25T23:03:31.563Z (8 days ago)
- Topics: blog, cms, ember, emberjs, etl-automation, etl-framework, etl-pipeline, forum, multi-tenancy, multitenancy, rails, ruby, ruby-on-rails, rubyonrails, saas, saas-boilerplate, template, violet-rails, wordpress-replacement, xaas
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage: https://violet.restarone.solutions
- Size: 32.7 MB
- Stars: 96
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 44
- Open Issues: 354
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: MIT-LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Security: SECURITY.md
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README
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[](https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails/actions/workflows/brakeman-analysis.yml)
[](https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails/actions/workflows/heroku-deploy.yml)
[](https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails/actions/workflows/deploy.yml)
## The Ultimate Rails-based, Web and Automation Platform 🌐
Built for your digital needs, trusted by startups and founders 🚀
Violet enables subdomain based:
- 📧 Email
- ✍️ Blog
- ℹ️ Forum
- 📊 Analytics
- 🦾 Automation
- 🤝 Collaboration
So you can have your marketing site hosted on `www.mywebsite.com`, while receiving support requests under `[email protected]` and building the Next Big Thing®️™️ at `app.mywebsite.com`-- all powered by Violet Rails.
Feel the power & productivity of the Majestic Monolith! 🐘
## Architecture overview
## Features ✨
### ✨ **A powerful website builder** 🌍
Powered by a rich Content Management System with out of the box support for Bootstrap 4 and jQuery, you can edit HTML templates either with a content first or markup first approach. Create both public and private web pages with ease.
***
#### Examples of inspirational websites built with Violet Rails 🚀
1. Coffee Oysters Champagne: https://www.sipshucksip.com
2. Marked Restaurant: http://markedrestaurant.com
3. a toi: https://a-toi.ca
***
### ✨ **A flexible app, automation and analytics platform** 🦾
Build apps and automation with Violet Rails API Namespace: https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails/wiki/API:-Entities,-Form-Rendering,-Interfaces-and-Actions
#### **Building forms** 📜
Build spam-resistant forms with Google Recaptcha v2 or v3. Since all systems in Violet Rails are vertically integrated, your forms can talk to your automations and analytics.
#### **Automation** 🤖
Build custom automation (eg mailchimp: https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails/issues/720) with ease with Ruby code or our HTTP API Editor (https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails/wiki/API:-Entities,-Form-Rendering,-Interfaces-and-Actions#http-api-editor-example-discord-bot)
#### **Analytics** 📈
Easily build funnels and data analytics systems with Violet Rails Data pipeline.
#### ✨ **Native iOS support** 📱 🍎
Every Violet Rails app transition seamlessly between web (left) and iOS (right)
iOS repository: https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails_ios_client
#### Examples of inspirational ✨ apps 🗺️ built with Violet Rails 🚀
1. Nikean Foundation: https://www.nikean.org
2. Restarone Solutions Tech Support: https://support.restarone.solutions
3. Restarone Software Solutions: https://restarone.com
4. Marked Restaurant: http://markedrestaurant.com
5. Opportunities at Restarone: http://contractors.restarone.solutions
***
### ✨ **Rich user management system with invites and granular permissions** 🧑🤝🧑
Allow your outreach team to support the forum and blog, while the designers and developers work on the web pages.
### ✨ **Simplest Email Service** 📧
Each Violet Rails
subdomain will have access to its own emailbox for sending and receiving emails:
### ✨ **Forum** 🤝
Full fledged community support with moderators and user permissions
### ✨ **Blog** ✍️
Blogging, everyone needs it right?
### ✨ **Two-tier admin system** 📋
Domain admins have control over which subdomains can be created (via approval) and destroyed. Subdomain admins have full control over their subdomain only.
## ✨ **Sensible architecture and safe defaults**
* Database multi-tenancy: Serious SaaS and XaaS apps need to support database multi-tenancy. So if you ship Violet with Postgres you will have schema based multi-tenancy with the option of routing each client at run-time to an external Postgres server. All of this is implemented in a simple way, just by subdomain (eg: design.your-website.com).
* Flexible and code first: The Violet CMS is powered by `comfortable_mexican_sofa` and offers the customizability of a Rails engine with full WYSIWYG functionality (its recommended that you stick to HTML/CSS/JS for static web hosting). Outside of this, its just Ruby on Rails -- the world is your oyster.
* Ready to Deploy: Violet comes with a barebones App Owner UI that helps you hit the ground running by managing subdomain requests. Each subdomain has its own roster of Users and an automatically allocated email-box (eg: [email protected]), blog (eg: www.your-website.com/blog) and landing page (www.yourwebsite.com). Granular permissioning for users can be managed at the subdomain level.
## ✨ **Authorization layers**
After deploying violet, you will be able to connect and setup your cannonical page and user account from the Rails console.
### 1. App Owners (Violet Sys Admin)
* If you are a domain owner (eg: https://yourdomain.com) you can find the Violet SysAdmin at https://www.yourdomain.com/sysadmin or https://yourdomain.com/sysadmin
* Any subdomain name on your domain can be reserved for web hosting, blog, and email functionality. For example, registering https://hello.yourdomain.com will automatically generate a website for https://hello.yourdomain.com, an email address at [email protected], a blog at https://hello.yourdomain.com/blog and a forum at https://hello.yourdomain.com/forum
* All these components can be administrated at https://hello.yourdomain.com/admin with granular user permissions
### Subdomain Owners (Web Admin)
To register a subdomain, visit https://yourdomain.com/signup_wizard
For security purposes, this only generates a request-- so the sysadmin will need to approve the subdomain registration at: https://www.yourdomain.com/sysadmin
* If you are the first user in a subdomain, you are conferred maximum permissions
## Deployment 🚀
### There are 2 options for deployment using AWS EC2 and Heroku
The [Demo](https://violet.restarone.solutions/) of `violet_rails` is deployed on AWS EC2 (using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) & requires some server setup/automation with Capistrano. The steps are outlined in-detail here: https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails/wiki/Deploying-to-EC2-(with-Capistrano)
If you prefer deploying to Heroku, [you can view the guide for that here](https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails/wiki/Deploying-to-Heroku)
## Want to build on top of Violet Rails?
The local development environment is supported by docker. After installing `docker` and `docker-compose` take a look at the development cheatsheet for setting up the development environment along with useful scripts: https://github.com/restarone/violet_rails/wiki/Getting-started-(development-cheatsheet)