I recently tried to work on a project which really required wordpress or drupal - it needed decent CMSing *and* blogging - and I don't touch PHP (not out of disdain or anything, I've just never really used it, and don't want to support it commercially). I ended up moving toward enki, which handles blogging well and page management simply.
Mephisto used to be quite good, but the Liquid templating layer was irksome. I've tried to sit through one of those Refinery CMS videos but they aren't very useful for questioning how the app can be extended and seem to contain predictable ideas. I'm dubious about CMS' created by design houses, as they often only cater to 'brochure sites' which are good with theming but don't create content platforms/services which are easy to extend using the framework. BCMS gets the brochure site approach right, and the UI is versatile, except its extensibility is an issue, I think (one of my current projects has extended it). They have a focussed team and it might well overcome these issues with time. The entire CMS gap is a bit annoying. I've been involved in a lot of CMS work over the last two years, and would be happy to have a hack session in a Melbourne pub one weekend afternoon if anyone wanted to have a go at doing something better, if only to share some ideas about what a good CMS would do on the Rails platform. adva_cms - http://github.com/svenfuchs/adva_cms/ - coming out of Germany was looking excellent for a little while, but I think the code may be overly complex. Cheers, Nicholas On Jan 22, 11:35 am, Daryl Manning <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd also say the same is true of a wordpress competitor though. I know it > irks me sometimes I still use wordpress even though I truly prefer running > an extending Rails app (let's face it, the wordpress eco system of plugins > is freaking amazing - much liek Drupal actually). > > ciao ! > Daryl > > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:40 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I tried Radiant CMS a while ago. I actually found it pretty buggy and > > slow. After looking at the code base, it was pretty clunky. Some of > > the administration sections were pretty badly designed as well. I > > tried explaining the Admin to some non techies, but they struggled. I > > didn't mean for that to turn into a Radiant bash, but thats just my > > experience. It may have changed since then (I played with it about 6 > > months ago). It almost made me write my own. I havent seen BrowserCMS > > before, I'm guessing it doesn't rank very high when you google "rails > > cms" > > > -- > > 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]<rails-oceania%2bunsubscr...@goog > > legroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- 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.
