Footer Message In Development Environment

[RuthNjeri]

Hi, this is a first-timers-only issue. This means we've worked to make it more legible to folks who either haven't contributed to our codebase before, or even folks who haven't contributed to open source before.

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• 🙋 Claim this issue: Comment below. If someone else has claimed it, ask if they've opened a pull request already and if they're stuck -- maybe you can help them solve a problem or move it along!

• 📝 Update the file Seeds.rb in the Main repository (press the little pen Icon) and edit the line as shown below.

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Below is a "diff" showing in red (and a -) which lines to remove, and in green (and a +) which lines to add:

plots2/db/seeds.rb

Line 85 in 97247e3

80.times { try { Node.find(rand(Node.count-2)+1).add_tag(tagnames[rand(tagnames.length-1)],User.first) } }

After line 85 add

+# Create a footer message
+footer_feature = Node.create! "type"=>"feature", "title"=>"footer-notice", "uid"=>admin.id
+Revision.create! "nid"=>footer_feature.nid, "uid"=>admin.uid, "title"=>"footer-notice", "body"=>"The footer is empty during local development", "teaser"=>"", "log"=>"", "format"=>1

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🤔❓ Questions?

Leave a comment below!

[RuthNjeri]

@jywarren the message looks like this locally

[HaardikBhagtani]

Can I work on this issue?

[RuthNjeri]

Hi @HaardikBhagtani yes, you can! Thanks

[HaardikBhagtani]

Done. Created PR.

[jywarren]

This is great! @RuthNjeri we can also do one for home-intro -- that shows up in the main body of the front page; we could use a text like:

Welcome to the plots2 application! This message is displayed only to developers running the code in a development environment.

To use a lot of the features on this site, even locally, you'll have to log in. Default username and password are ...

and stuff like that!

plots2/app/views/home/home.html.erb

Lines 1 to 3 in 97247e3

	<% cache('feature_home-intro', skip_digest: true) do %>
	<%= feature("home-intro") %>
	<% end %>

@HaardikBhagtani I'll review yours now! Thanks!

[RuthNjeri]

@jywarren that makes sense, I'll create that issue too.