Creating a blog in Rails has a lot of parts that are repetitive like posts, users, authentication, links, admin dashboard, file upload, etc. I made this to use it as starting point to create a blog.

• bootstrap (design)
• devise (authentication)
• active_admin (admin panel)
• active_admin_flat_skin (admin panel design)
• activeadmin_medium_editor
• carrierwave (file upload)

Currently this project uses bootstrap for the design of the blog itself and active_admin_flat_skin for the design of the admin interface. The admin interface is made using active_admin and activeadmin_medium_editor to edit the posts. It uses devise for the authentication of admins/users. File upload is handled with carrierwave.

The project has 5 models:

• User/Admin
• Post
• Photo
• Tag

File upload is handled by creating a new Photo record to reduce the redundancy of photos. The editor supports HTML input plus simple text styling thanks to activeadmin_medium_editor which adds quick controls for inserting titles, subtitles, links, etc.