Conferences

Conferences is a plugin for Spina that provides conference management functionality. With the plugin, you'll be able to manage details of conferences, delegates, and presentations.

Spina is a content management system built in Ruby on Rails. Conferences augments Spina by providing an admin interface for managing conferences.

Features

The conferences plugin covers many important aspects of managing a conferences, including:

• Simple interface that builds upon Spina's own.
• Manage details about delegates, including dietary requirements.
• Manage conferences, supporting conferences with multiple host institutions.
• Manage presentations, including presentation types.

Currently, a submissions management system is not included, but this is planned for a future release. This will allow you to manage the submissions process for conferences in a manner integrated with the CMS.

Usage

The plugin will add a Conferences item to Spina's primary navigation menu. The menu structure will then be as follows:

• Other menu items
• Conferences
  • Institutions
  • Conferences
  • Delegates
  • Presentations

After installing the plugin, you just need to start your server in the usual way:

$ rails s

Installation

From scratch

Make sure you have a working installation of Ruby on Rails 7. You can find a setup guide here.

You then need to install Spina, following the guide on the Spina website.

To install the plugin, add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'spina-admin-conferences-fork', '~> 3.0'

Then execute:

$ bundle install

You'll then need to install and run the migrations from the plugin:

$ bin/rails spina_admin_conferences:install:migrations
$ bin/rails db:migrate

You can then start a local server to test that everything's working.

$ bin/rails s

You can manually populate the database from within the app, or alternatively you can use seed data for testing. A sample seeds.rb file can be found here.

Configuring the main Rails app

Conferences requires a job queueing backend for import functionality, and you'll also want to cache pages listing presentations, conferences, and so on. Read about this in the Rails guides covering Active Job and caching.

Contributing

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome in the Issues section. Translations are also very welcome!

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.