This gem adds a simple alpha/beta landing page and signup form to attract potential users in the early phase of app development. Instead of waiting until your bohemoth application is picture perfect, you can start to accumulate interest and potential beta testers.

Seeing your baby deployed and online (even with merely a lowly landing page) is a great motivator to continue developing -- especially if you're doing so in your spare time.

Install the gem in a rails application with

gem install alphabeta

Afterwards, mount the engine at the top of the routes.rb file:

mount Alphabeta::Engine => "/"

This includes the engine's routes before all others, ensuring your application will respond to the Alphabeta::Signup controller's defined actions (show/create)

Finally, copy over the migration(s) and migrate the db.

rake alphabeta:install:migrations
rake db:migrate

Everything should now be working. You can check by starting your server with

rails s

and navigating to localhost:3000/. You should see a plain signup form with a generic welcome message and signup form.

If not, feel free to open an issue on Github.

The gem supports internationalization by default. To change the text, be sure to edit the delivered .yml file. These will be copied over when the install generator is called. Additional language strings can be added through the proper .yml file.

1. Add generator to copy over view(s) for modification in application.
2. Allow for configuration of template engine and provide basic templates for each (erb, haml, slim)

This project rocks and is licensed under the terms and conditions of the MIT-LICENSE.