Well, I know everyon once in a while I get a hankering to work on a blogging project to replace wordpress. Same sort of goals: dead easy install, good theming, plugin architecture, fast, efficient, troublefree (in fact, one thing that's quite started to annoy me lately is the number of times I've had to upgrade wordpress of late even with cap deploy and git). Opinionated, but practical (all respect to other blog developers like Xavier and folks too who have done some great work). I know xml-rpc posting is one of my big needs since I rarely log into the things myself.
anyhow, if anyone was cool with that, I'd be happy to work on it - just seems like a lot ot take on on my own. ciao ! Daryl. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected]>wrote: > 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%[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]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > 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.
