roughly got crops/plantings working for new homepage

app/controllers/home_controller.rb

@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ class HomeController < ApplicationController
     @planting_count = Planting.count
     @garden_count   = Garden.count
 
+    @member = current_member
+
+    @recent_crops = Crop.recent.first(12)
+
     # choose 6 recently-signed-in members sort of at random
     @interesting_members = Member.interesting.limit(30).shuffle.first(6)
 
-    # customise what we show on the homepage based on whether you're
-    # logged in or not.
-    @member = current_member
     @plantings = Planting.limit(15)
-    @posts = Post.limit(10)
 
     respond_to do |format|
       format.html # index.html.haml

app/views/crops/_image_with_popover.html.haml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+= link_to |
+  image_tag( |
+    crop.default_photo ?  crop.default_photo.thumbnail_url : 'placeholder_150.png', |
+    :alt => crop.system_name |
+  ), |
+  '#', |
+  :rel => "popover", |
+  'data-trigger' => 'hover', |
+  'data-title' => crop.system_name, |
+  'data-content' => "#{ render :partial => 'crops/popover', :locals => { :crop => crop } }", |
+  'data-html' => true

app/views/crops/_popover.html.haml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+%p
+  - if crop.scientific_names.count > 0
+    %i
+      %small
+        = crop.scientific_names.first.scientific_name
+    %br/
+    %small
+      Planted
+      = pluralize(crop.plantings_count, "time")
+= link_to "More detail", crop

app/views/home/_crops.html.haml

@@ -1,3 +1,39 @@
-%h2 Crops
+.row-fluid
+  .span6
+    %h3 Some of our crops
+    - count = 0
+    - Crop.all.shuffle.each do |c|
+      - next unless c.photos.present?
+      - count += 1
+      .span3{:style => 'margin:0px; padding: 3px'}
+        = render :partial => 'crops/image_with_popover.html.haml', :locals => { :crop => c }
+      - break if count == 12
+
+  .span6
+    %h3 Recently planted
+    - count = 0
+    - Planting.all.each do |p|
+      - next unless p.photos.present?
+      - count += 1
+      .row
+        .span2{:style => 'padding-bottom: 6px'}
+          =link_to image_tag(p.photos.first.thumbnail_url, :alt => p.to_s), p
+        .span10
+          = link_to p.crop, p.crop
+          in
+          = succeed "'s" do
+            = link_to p.owner, p.owner
+          = link_to p.garden, p.garden
+          %br/
+          %small
+            %i
+              = p.owner.location
+      - break if count == 4
+
+.row-fluid
+  .span12
+    %p
+      %strong
+        Recently added crops:
+      != @recent_crops.map {|c| link_to(c, c) }.join(", ")
 
-%p Here are some crops

app/views/home/index.html.haml

@@ -1,24 +1,18 @@
-- if member_signed_in?
-  = render :partial => 'signed_in'
+.row
+  = render :partial => 'blurb'
+.row
+  .span8
+    = render :partial => 'crops'
+    = render :partial => 'seeds'
+    = render :partial => 'people'
 
-- else
+  .span4
+    %h2 Keep in touch
 
-  .row
-    = render :partial => 'blurb'
-  .row
-    .span8
-      = render :partial => 'crops'
-      = render :partial => 'seeds'
-      = render :partial => 'people'
+    %h2 Open Source
 
+    %h2 Open Data and APIs
 
-    .span4
-      %h2 Keep in touch
+    %h2 Get Involved
 
-      %h2 Open Source
-
-      %h2 Open Data and APIs
-
-      %h2 Get Involved
-
-      %h2 Support Growstuff
+    %h2 Support Growstuff

app/views/plantings/_list.html.haml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+
+