Diacode Picks is a small work in progress tool which will help you building link compilations and distributing them using third party services like Mailchimp. This particular project is based on Rails 4.1 and acts as the backend of our app.
Unlike the previous version right now the project doesn't include a frontend part built in as it did before relying on Ember.js and ember-rails gem.
We plan to release a frontend for it in the future as a standalone project however at this moment we don't have anything yet.
Links model now includes an approved column. This way you can manage the compilations build and publishing in a different manner. You can auto publish compilations using lib/tasks/buffer_watch.rake once your 'buffer' of approved links has reached a threshold.
Diacode Picks is tested with the latest MRI (2.1). Other versions/VMs are untested but might work fine.
We use Sidekiq to delegate Mailchimp API communication. It requires to have Redis 2.4 or greater installed.
Before start you will have to do some quick configuration.
It works like all Rails applications. Just create a config/database.yml using config/database.example.yml template and execute rake db:migrate to run all migrations.
Note: sqlite3 is the default database adapter but you can choose whatever you want by changing it on the Gemfile.
The application implements user access so you need to setup all user account before using the application. Unfortunately you can't add them through the web interface yet so you will have to create all of them using rails console. Users in the backend are managed using Devise gem.
Diacode Picks uses Mailchimp to send the compilations to subscribers. Within the project is attached a config/mailchimp.example.yml file that you have to override with your own settings.
There is a twitter integration to publish links whenever they are marked as approved. This task is delegated to sidekiq's TweetLinkWorker.
Like mailchimp you will have to rename config/twitter.example.yml file to config/twitter.yml and fill it with your own settings.
If you are not interested in sharing links to twitter you can disable this integration by changing config.tweet_approved_links to false in config/application.rb.
You can add links to the app using this Hubot script we've written.