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TheComments - probably, best commenting system for Rails

• Threaded comments
• Useful cache counters
• Admin UI for moderation
• Online Support via skype: ilya.killich
• Denormalization for Recent comments
• Production-ready commenting system for Rails 4+
• Designed for preprocessors Sanitize, Textile, Markdawn etc.

Gemfile

gem 'the_comments', "~> 2.0"

gem 'haml'                # or gem 'slim'
gem 'awesome_nested_set'  # or same gem

Bundle

bundle

Copy migrations

rake the_comments_engine:install:migrations

Will create:

• xxxxx_change_user.rb
• xxxxx_create_comments.rb
• xxxxx_change_commentable.rb

⚠️   Open and change xxxxx_change_commentable.rb migration

class ChangeCommentable < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    # Additional fields to Commentable Models
    # [:posts, :articles, ... ]

    # There is only Post model is commentable
    [:posts].each do |table_name|
      change_table table_name do |t|
        t.integer :draft_comments_count,     default: 0
        t.integer :published_comments_count, default: 0
        t.integer :deleted_comments_count,   default: 0
      end
    end
  end
end

Invoke migrations

rake db:migrate

rails g the_comments install

Will create:

• config/initializers/the_comments.rb
• app/controllers/comments_controller.rb
• app/models/comment.rb

⚠️   Open each file and follow an instructions

app/models/user.rb

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  include TheComments::User

  has_many :posts

  def admin?
    self == User.first
  end

  def comments_admin?
    admin?
  end

  def comments_moderator? comment
    id == comment.holder_id
  end
end

app/models/post.rb

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  include TheComments::Commentable

  belongs_to :user

  # Denormalization methods
  # Please, read about advanced using
  def commentable_title
    "Undefined Post Title"
  end

  def commentable_url
    "#"
  end

  def commentable_state
    "published"
  end
end

app/assets/stylesheets/application.css

/*
 *= require the_comments
*/

app/assets/javascripts/application.js

//= require the_comments

app/controllers/posts_controllers.rb

def show
  @post     = Post.find params[:id]
  @comments = @post.comments.with_state([:draft, :published])
end

app/views/posts/show.html.haml

= render partial: 'the_comments/tree', locals: { commentable: @post, comments_tree: @comments }

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