CMS on Rails 2 and easy to integrate with?

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Hi,

im looking for a CMS in Rails and all posts of that kind that i have seen seem outdated...

For an application i need to have app-specific parts + content management. I thought of integrating with an existing CMS project in Rails. These would be the requirement i would have for a CMS:

Must-have-features:   * Rails 2 compatible   * Easy integration: should be easy to integrate with other parts of the website that would be developed also in Rails   * Stable: should be used in production   * Localization support (DB, YAML or GetText)

Nive to have features:

   * WYSIWYG editor    * Single sign on

I have been looking at these projects:

   * Radiant    * Rubricks (didn't like the interface)    * RCMS (does not seem active since 2007)    * Railfrog (does not seem active since 2007)    * Comatose (does not seem active since 2007)    * XLSuite (active?)    * Geego (active?)

Do you have any recommendations? Any additional information? Are there any other projects out there worth looking at?

Any help or opinion welcome!

Cheers!

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I've also have come across the following:

   * SimpleCMS (too simple for what i have to do)    * Seymore (seems active, runs on rails 2)    * Zena (seems active, runs on rails 2)

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For an application i need to have app-specific parts + content

management. I thought of integrating with an existing CMS project in

Rails. These would be the requirement i would have for a CMS:

Radiant is the way to go.

Must-have-features:

  • Rails 2 compatible

Radiant comes with Rails 2.0.2 in vendor/rails. There is current work to move to Rails 2.1.

  • Easy integration: should be easy to integrate with other parts of

the website that would be developed also in Rails

Check out the share_layouts extension. Also, look at the import-export extension.

  • Stable: should be used in production

Radiant is very well tested.

  • Localization support (DB, YAML or GetText)

Via DB: translator extension.

Nive to have features:

  • WYSIWYG editor

Radiant extensions exist for FCKeditor and TinyMCE.

  • Single sign on

Radiant’s User model is available to the local Rails app:

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Thanks Tim!

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To add my 2 cents ...

I have enjoyed using Geego. It is not hugely active, but there is a small community of users. It is mostly geared towards small sites. It is especially good when non-technical users are responsible for the translations.

Radiant seems to be the way to go if you want something bigger. But when I was looking at CMSes, I had a really hard time with version dependencies of all the radient plugins that I needed. I might get one or two plugins to work with a certain version, but the other plugins would stop working. In the end, Geego offered me everything I wanted in an *almost* out-of-the-box way.

HTH

apm wrote:

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Hi !

We will be releasing a public beta of Zena in a few weeks (start of october). It's been running in production for nearly two years, we are only releasing a public version now because we wanted to stabilize the templating laguage zafu.

There's a lot of information on http://zenadmin.org.

Some features:

- no admin interface (in place, WYSIWYG editing) - fully defined behaviour through the xhtml templating language - very easy to transform a static xhtml website into a CMS - groups based access rights, versions, images, etc

Gaspard

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Tim Gossett wrote:

Radiant <http://github.com/radiant/radiant/tree&gt; is the way to go. *snip*

Hi Tim

That's a fantastic list of things you've created. Any chance that I could urge you to add it to the Radiant CMS Summer Reboot Documentation [1] project? It may go in as something like "Does Radiant have what I need?"

[1] http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Summer_Reboot

Cheers Mohit.

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done.

http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Does_Radiant_have_what_I_need

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Tim Gossett wrote:

done.

http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Does_Radiant_have_what_I_need

Excellent! Thanks a lot :slight_smile:

Cheers, Mohit. 9/10/2008 | 9:13 AM.