Testimonials plugin for Refinery CMS

Version 5.0 has breaking changes. Although testimonials retain the same form, they are now associated with Refinery Pages via a has_many, through association.

How to install

In your Gemfile, add the gem:

gem 'refinerycms-testimonials', '~> 5.0'

Now, run bundle install and the gem should install.

To install the migrations, run:

rails generate refinery:testimonials
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed

Add Testimonials to the database

You can now add testimonials to the database through the Refinery CMS. The testimonials fields are

• quote (the actual testimonial)
• name (of testimonial sender)
• company ( ditto )
• website ( ditto )
• jobtitle ( ditto )
• received_channel (letter, email, facebook, twitter)

Displaying Testimonials

Testimonials can be associated with a Refinery Page using a testimonials Tab which the extension adds to the page editor.

By default testimonials are displayed as a multiple select tag.

These can be displayed as a two-sided select box using javascript, or could be shown with checkboxes.

To change the select to checkboxes you can over-ride the partial that creates the tab.

$ rails refinery:override view=testimonials/admin/testimonials/tabs/_select_testimonials

('select' in the filename indicating a choice, rather than a select statement.)

To get check boxes, replace the collection_select in that file with

collection_check_boxes(:page, :testimonial_ids, @testimonials, :id, :name)

Changes to Views or Layout Templates

See Enabling Custom Layout Templates in this refinery guide

Views

Somewhere in a view or layout you will need to call a testimonials partial.

<section id='side'>
  <%= raw @page.content_for(:side) %>
  <%= render 'refinery/testimonials/testimonials' %>
</section>

will render the CMS content for a page part called 'side', followed by some testimonials.

For more control over what is displayed the @testimonials collection is available for you. You can call your own partial to render the collection.

<%= render 'myTestimonials', @page.testimonials %>