Dan, I will be very interested to hear which one you choose. I've tried out Goldberg and Beast and both seem cool, but they also seem DEAD? It's hard to jump on a CMS product that shows no signs of life. I'm not complaining about the guys that built these, I know they've got to follow the MONEY, but it's hard to build your dreamhouse on a questionable foundation. I've got some interesting ideas in this area, if you'd like to talk sometime? David 775-885-9125
FYI, Goldberg is not dead. version 0.2 was release on April 1st or 2nd. Dave is always on the forums answering questions (http:// www.forum.goldberg.240gl.org/). Version 0.2 also has some advancement in the CMS. I'm not familiar with them because I don't need anything fancy for my content pages, just text.
Hi BraveDave,
I will be very interested to hear which one you choose. I've tried out Goldberg and Beast and both seem cool, but they also seem DEAD? It's hard to jump on a CMS product that shows no signs of life. I'm
Goldberg 0.2 was released 7 days ago. Goldberg is undergoing active development. If you look at the Rubyforge project you will see that Goldberg has regular bi-monthly releases.
not complaining about the guys that built these, I know they've got to follow the MONEY, but it's hard to build your dreamhouse on a questionable foundation.
Goldberg is a not-for-profit venture. It is Free (freedom) software. There is no non-free/commercial version of Goldberg, neither is one planned. It's produced by a team of software professionals who share an interest in producing an enterprise-grade application deployment environment for Rails, but apart from our interest in Goldberg we don't share any other affiliation.
If anyone is interested in finding out more about Goldberg come visit the website at http://goldberg.240gl.org or the forum at http://forum.goldberg.240gl.org.
Regards, Dave Nelson
One of the things I like about Goldberg is how they maintain independence between your application and the plugin. You get support for users, authentication, and permissions to access specific pages and controller/actions, without having to change your app. If I understand correctly, as powerful as Goldberg is, that reduces your risk should you decide to fall back to acts_as_authenticated or some other plugin(s) in the future. http://goldberg.240gl.org/internals
