I have been getting into Radiant, and its a pretty good option if you're a Ruby developer and your clients just need a simple admin interface to edit a brochure site, but with the massive customisation ability that Ruby tends to provide. Its also highly efficient as content is cached and served statically eg. by Apache, not Rails. Radiant is deliberately bare-bones; without plugins there is no WYSIWYG editor (I chose the FCKEditor plugin), and you can't even rearrange content in the sitemap. Also checkout the Chronicle plugin for workflow and versioning.
However I just discovered BrowserCMS, and I reckon its a pretty big deal for the Ruby/Rails world. This is a commercially-backed product still selling for $20K in Java, being Open Sourced and rewritten in Rails. Even though its only left beta this week, its already way ahead of Radiant. Regarding browser versions, they only apply to the backend (the front end is up to you), and they acknowledge the backend issues with Safari, and are to be addressing that in the next release. BrowserCMS seems to have most of the positives of Radiant plus FCKEditor builtin, workflow, user permissions, drag and drop sitemap rearranging, inline editing and a very slick looking admin interface (though not so obvious to use). Being Ruby, I would expect all sorts of extensions to appear. I have no connection with them, I'm just glad to see this almost-void in the Ruby ecosystem filled with a serious looking product. p.s. for anyone trying the demo of BrowserCMS, they seem to have forgotten to set the template of the home page correctly. Set it to the Home Page template, and things make a lot more sense. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
