DEPRECATED. Recommend using Kemal or Kemalyst

Example Blog using Crystal and Amethyst

A blog that is written in Crystal using Amethyst. This is a test to see how close to a RoR's app I can get using the current libs, frameworks, etc.

I tried to replicate the same file structure as a Rails App. There are some minor differences but it should be fairly simple to see how I did this.

Installation

This project requires Crystal 0.7.7 and either SQLite or a MySQL database. I am including both drivers in the dependencies.

git clone git@github.com:drujensen/crystal-blog.git

Next setup the database. The default is using SQLite so no setup is involved. If you decide to use MySQL, update the config/database.yml to match your settings and change the adapter in the models.

Install dependencies using crystal deps

Compile the code using crystal build blog.cr

Connect to the database and run crystal /db/migrate.cr to drop and create the databases.

Usage

Run the blog using crystal run blog.cr and hitting http://localhost:8080 from your browser.

The default username and password is admin and password.

Development

There are several features that are still needed. I am trying to keep this very simple and RoR'ish as much as possible. Keep that in mind when contributing.

Roadmap

• Add Validation and Error Handling
• Add Comments with has many like syntax
• Add Capistrano
• Add Grunt/Gulp for Asset Compilation