The EMF Poster Generator is a simple Sinatra & JavaScript app built for attendees at EMF 2012. The aim was to easily create a poster about their on-site projects. Users can edit the poster in place and save it as a publicly accessible web page.

It doesn't degrade gracefully and it won't work without JavaScript. It makes use of 960.gs and PageDown.

A config.ru file is provided, so it should run out-of-the-box as a Rack app. You can try it out on the web.

Ruby; Sinatra; SQLite; SASS; DataMapper.

1. Get a copy of the source code.

   git clone [email protected]:creature/emfpostergenerator.git
   cd emfpostergenerator
   

2. Grab the dependencies.

   bundle install
   

3. Generate the CSS files:

   cd public/css
   sass blueonwhite.scss blueonwhite.css
   sass blackonwhite.scss blackonwhite.css
   sass whiteonblue.scss whiteonblue.css
   

4. Run poster.rb:

   ruby poster.rb
   

You'll now have a server running on http://localhost:4567. Visiting that URL in your web browser should show you the poster generator.

The backend server for the system. The top section defines the model for our poster. The bottom section has three routes set up: one to serve the index page (the dummy poster), one to serve a specific poster (pretty much the same), and one to save a new poster.

The only template in the system. It's the poster.

The JavaScript that drives the front-end. Registers some click handlers for the editable elements, and saves the poster via AJAX.

AGPL, except for the bits that aren't (960gs and PageDown).

The code was written by Alex Pounds. Visual design by Roberto Crippa.