Are there any videos showing how to setup a new planet rss site?

[Joe Rodgers]

I am new to this and eager to learn. I am running through the install in cmd and deploying new ruby app, and installing all the pluto components but keep getting errors. Is there a video of an install for this?

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

Welcome to pluto.

If you use the pluto command line than installation is:

$ gem install pluto

To see if it works - try:

$ pluto help

For more see the official docu online @ http://feedreader.github.io

Sorry no video or screencast I know of. Good luck. Cheers. Prost.

PS: If you post your github repo with the pluto setup that will help
too if you have any.

[Joe Rodgers]

I am unable to build the initial planet, not sure where I am getting this wrong.

my github repository:

https://github.com/bitcoinwords/feedwords

Steps taken:

create repo on GitHub

clone repo with GitHub desktop

navigate to folder on local machine in cmd

Run:

$ rails new .

$ gem install sqlite3

$ rails db:create 

$ gem install pluto

$ pluto build planet.ini -t starter -o build

Here is the output from the planet build:

d:\GitHub\feedwords>pluto build planet.ini -t starter -o build

pluto/1.3.4 on Ruby 2.6.6 (2020-03-31) [x64-mingw32]

[info] db settings:

[info] {:adapter=>"sqlite3", :database=>"./planet.db"}

*** error: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - planet.ini

[Joe Rodgers]

On Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 10:03:48 PM UTC-5, Joe Rodgers wrote:

I am unable to build the initial planet, not sure where I am getting this wrong.

my github repository:

https://github.com/bitcoinwords/feedwords

Steps taken:

create repo on GitHub

clone repo with GitHub desktop

navigate to folder on local machine in cmd

Run:

$ rails new .

$ gem install sqlite3

$ rails db:create 

$ gem install pluto

$ pluto build planet.ini -t starter -o build

Here is the output from the planet build:

d:\GitHub\feedwords>pluto build planet.ini -t starter -o build

pluto/1.3.4 on Ruby 2.6.6 (2020-03-31) [x64-mingw32]

[info] db settings:

[info] {:adapter=>"sqlite3", :database=>"./planet.db"}

*** error: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - planet.ini

I should have included the pluto help output:

d:\GitHub\feedwords>pluto help

NAME

    pluto - another planet generator (lets you build web pages from published web feeds)

SYNOPSIS

    pluto [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

VERSION

    1.3.4

GLOBAL OPTIONS

    -c, --config=PATH         - Configuration Path (default:

                                C:/Users/josep/.pluto)

    --help                    - Show this message

    -q, --quiet, -w, --warn   - Only show warnings, errors and fatal messages

    --quieter, --err, --error - Only show errors and fatal messages

    --verbose, --debug        - (Debug) Show debug messages

    --version                 - Display the program version

COMMANDS

    about, a      - (Debug) Show more version info

    build, b      - Build planet

    fetch, f      - Fetch feeds

    help          - Shows a list of commands or help for one command

    install, i    - Install template pack

    list, ls, l   - List installed template packs

    merge, m      - Merge planet template pack

    test          - (Debug) Show global options, options, arguments for test

                    command

    update, up, u - Update planet feeds 

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

FYI: You don't need a rails app for the planet. The easiest setup
is a static website setup using the pluto command line tool - that is
- you delete everything except the missing (required) planet.ini
configuration.

I would start with this simple setup in step 1 and than once
that is working you can always add more or go "dynamic" with a web
app.

Anyways, the error:

*** error: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - planet.ini

That's just saying that the required planet.ini (that is, your
feed list is missing).
Add a new planet.ini file and add your feeds and than retry. Example:

title = Planet Ruby

[rubylang]
title = Ruby Lang News
link = http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news
feed = http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/feeds/news.rss

[rubyonrails]
title = Ruby on Rails News
link = http://weblog.rubyonrails.org
feed = http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/feed/atom.xml


Cheers. Prost. Good luck.

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,
Just for the record - your first steps:

X $ rails new .
X $ gem install sqlite3
X $ rails db:create
OK $ gem install pluto
OK $ pluto build planet.ini -t starter -o build

Not sure why you start with a rails app - it's not needed for now,
thus, that's all that is needed to get started:

$ gem install pluto
$ pluto build planet.ini -o build

Plus - of course - you have to create a planet.ini configuration
file with your feeds to include. See the last answer. Good luck.
Cheers. Prost.

[Joe Rodgers]

Gerald, 

Many thanks on the clarification. I was under the impression I had to run ruby and create db manually each time you create a ruby app.

I am very excited to get this deployed locally. I have attached a screenshot as proof that I am officially an entry-level hacker ;)

Here are the exact steps I used to deploy the feedreader starter template on my local machine:

• go to pluto.starter GH repo and click "use template" to create a cloned repository
• open my new repo website on github and then open in with GH desktop, which will clone the repo to a folder on my local machine
• open the repo main folder on my pc
• create a planet.ini file in main repo folder
• using cmd prompt navigate to repo main folder and run the following:  
• $ gem install pluto
• $ pluto build planet.ini -t starter -o build

[Joe Rodgers]

Gerald,

I am running into errors getting themes installed now.

gh: https://github.com/bitcoinwords/feedwords

Here are the steps I am using:

open cmd prompt and navigate to main repository folder for my feedreader project

Run the following:

$ pluto install top

$ pluto ls

Output image:

$ pluto b ruby -t top

Output image:

Do you have any advice on where I am going wrong?

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

   Great news.  Yeah, the magic is SQLite - it's just a library ("serverless" before "serverless") that auto-creates the database (just a single file) the first time you run pluto  - sorry for the confusion.

About the error with:

    $ pluto b ruby -t top

    

Ha.  That might look a little to hackish :-).

If I can remember correctly it is now longer advised / recommended to leave off the .ini extension, thus, please try the less magic:

   $ pluto b ruby.ini -t top

   Good luck.  Cheers. Prost.

PS: There was a little (upgrade) error in the top template (missing to_a in in_columns), see https://github.com/planet-templates/planet-top/issues/1  that got fixed about an hour ago.

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,
Errata:

If you planet configuration is named lets say planet.ini than you
ALWAYS have to use planet.ini in your commands. Thus, if you see an
example with ruby.ini. Change:

$ pluto b ruby.ini -t top

to use

$ pluto b planet.ini -t top

Good luck.

[Joe Rodgers]

Well, 

I am not sure what I did because I closed cmd.

But I ran:

$ pluto build

$ pluto fetch

and now I can see an additional HTML file in the root that shows the "top" template view.

It is working locally and this is pretty awesome! Amazing how a couple lines of code can deploy a webpage!

[Joe Rodgers]

Gerald, 

Is there a list of steps to deploy to heroku webapp?

At this time, I have synced my gh repo to heroku but it will not build. I am assuming I need to declare a buildpack. I have tried to deploy using ruby, node, PHP, but can't get the app to deploy.

Here is a look at my settings:

Here is the deploy tab, you can see ruby is the current build pack:

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

   Great that it's working.

   About heroku -  sorry I haven't used heroku for some years now. I don't know.  Again the "basic" setup is not really a web app but a simpler static website.   Maybe there is something like a ruby static website build pack for heroku  the same that you would use for the jekyll static website generator / builder / compiler. I don't know.

   Netlify might be another option - it's the "heroku for static websites" - but again sorry I have no personal experience.   Good luck. Cheers. Prost.

[Joseph Rodgers]

Thanks for the reply! After some messing around, I was able to get gh pages to serve it thanks to a friend!

This is great, thank you so much for your help!

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[Joe Rodgers]

Gerald,

Did you make all the themes?

On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 2:05:10 PM UTC-5, Joe Rodgers wrote:

Thanks for the reply! After some messing around, I was able to get gh pages to serve it thanks to a friend!

This is great, thank you so much for your help!

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 1:54 PM Gerald Bauer <gerald...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

   Great that it's working.

   About heroku -  sorry I haven't used heroku for some years now. I don't know.  Again the "basic" setup is not really a web app but a simpler static website.   Maybe there is something like a ruby static website build pack for heroku  the same that you would use for the jekyll static website generator / builder / compiler. I don't know.

   Netlify might be another option - it's the "heroku for static websites" - but again sorry I have no personal experience.   Good luck. Cheers. Prost.

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[Joe Rodgers]

Wanted to share an update!

You might get a kick out of this, but each feed item is wrapped in a bitcoin lightning network paywall.

I have got my setup humming and tweaked a template to my liking

https://bitcoinwords.github.io/links/docs/planet.news.html

My next plan is to learn how to make this thing update automatically each morning!

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

> Did you make all the themes?

Initially I was the one and only users :-) - and, thus, all the
themes at https://github.com/planet-templates are just examples that I
put together some years ago.

A different "take" is to use pluto with a static website compiler /
builder such as jekyll and than you can use all the jekyll themes (as
done by OpenSUSE and others), see
https://github.com/feedreader/planet.rb

> I have got my setup humming and tweaked a template to my liking

Great news. Thanks for sharing. Keep it up. Cheers. Prost.