I have just open sourced my Content Management System called Seymore.
Rather than having a separate administration section for managing
content, content management functions are available throughout the site
so users are able to contextually and comfortably manage the content. I
am looking for any and all feedback. Please, either checkout the latest
source from subversion, grab version 0.1 from the project's page or
just check out the screencasts and let me know what you think. Thanks,
in advance!
I have just open sourced my Content Management System called Seymore.
Rather than having a separate administration section for managing
content, content management functions are available throughout the site
so users are able to contextually and comfortably manage the content. I
am looking for any and all feedback. Please, either checkout the latest
source from subversion, grab version 0.1 from the project's page or
just check out the screencasts and let me know what you think. Thanks,
in advance!
I have never understood why more CMS don't take this approach.
DotNetNuke has always done it and I found that clients find this
approach more easier to understand. Nice work.
Looks interesting. The publish, edit, etc color-highlighted links are
a little odd. I'd go with plain buttons and then that metaphor
wouldn't conflict with later enhancements, like colored highlighting
when showing diffs. I like the way you did the left-hand page
hierarchy with the floating Add. You might want to move user_can_add,
user_can_edit, and other user attribute methods out of
ApplicationHelper; I wouldn't consider them view-oriented. You might
consider Rick Olsen's acts_as_authenticated for handling users (as
well as his acts_as_versioned), and take a look at my authorization
plugin (writertopia) for
handling the user authorizations (edit/publish/...) Thanks for
sharing!
Thomas,
Do you see this as a similar package to say Sugar CRM. I don’t mean the type of application or functionality but where others can customize and provide “services” to clients around Seymore ?
I see Seymore as being very small and only providing the most
necessary features through a clean API with a nice set of helpers.
This will making theme-ing Seymore a simple task. The next thing that
I want to do is design a plugin architecture to extend content types
that are handled. So, I guess the answer to your question is yes. I
see Seymore as being a solid CMS base that can be extended for various
purposes.
I think Ruby on Rails really needs a CMS that can compete with Drupal.
My compay is moving to Drupal from a bespoke Java CMS.
I really do not like PHP and I really wanted it to be built on Ruby on
Rails. But after using Drupal for a while, I came to the conclusion
that there is nothing out there for rails that can compete (IMHO). I
would have to build a system from the ground up.
I have looked at most of the players for Rails CMS's.
I think this was also true for forums, until Beast
Look at Radiant, it powers the ruby site. It also comes with a nifty
command that will bootstrap a new rails app with Radiant all setup,
ready for you to extend.
I have looked at Radiant. But I don't think it can compare to Drupal.
Don't get me wrong. I think Radiant is a great. But its just not
there yet. But obvsioully that is due to time and community size.
Drupal has been around a lot longer and has a heavy community
submitting modules night and day.
Lets hope, we as a community can create a CMS as active in developnment
as Drupal. Whether that be Radiant or any other CMS. (although i think
Radiant is the best bet
I just wanted to say quickly that a bug was brought to my attention
that affected Seymore running with a MySQL database. I have committed
the fix to the trunk and also posted some new distributions (0.1.1) on
the project's site (http://slicedsoftware.com/software/seymore/). All
MySQL related issues should now be resolved.
