BrickPile

BrickPile is easy to setup, just follow these simple steps and you are up’n running in no time.

1. Create a fresh ASP.NET MVC 3 Web application
2. Removed unused packages installed by the project template
3. Run PM> Install-Package BrickPile inside the Package Manager Console in Visual studio (in some cases nuget adds multiple values of the form tag inside web.config)
4. Navigate to the folder RavenDB.* in the packages directory
5. Dowload and extract https://github.com/downloads/kloojed/BrickPile/Plugins.rar and put the plugins folder inside RavenDB.*/server
6. Start Raven.Server.exe, ensure you run it on port 8080
7. Hit f5 and navigate to /dashboard/account/manageusers and enter your credentials
8. Create a new controller called HomeController with the following code
   

   public class HomeController : Controller {
       private readonly IPageModel _model;
       public ActionResult Index() {
           return View(_model);
       }
       public HomeController(IPageModel model) {
           _model = model;
       }

9. Create a new model called Home
   

   [PageModel("Start page")]
   public class Home : PageModel {
       public string Heading { get; set; }
       [DataType(DataType.Html)]
       public string MainBody { get; set; }
   }
   

10. Create a new view for the HomeController
    

    
    @model YOURNAMESPACE.Models.Home
    @{
        ViewBag.Title = "Index";
        Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
    }
    
    <h1>@Html.DisplayFor(model => model.Heading)</h1>
    @Html.Raw(Model.MainBody)
    

11. Navigate to /dashboard and login using your credentials
12. Click Content and create your default page

That’s it, enjoy!