OK, seriously thinking about taking the old SimpleLog code (which I ran for a while and was very good) and updating/using it as a base for my own purposes and adding a few features I want.
One thing I was wondering, does anyone know enough about the wordpress theming engine to give me some pointers on what it would take to write something that could take existing wordpress themes and convert them over (or at least have some drop in compatibility with a rails blog theme engine ?) ? Daryl. On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks Sutto - I'm going to spend 30 minutes messing about with > Refinery now. > > Gary (buzzware) - yeh, community is the main determinant for the > success of a CMS, and it would be foolish to look past available > options. Having said that, there are different degrees of openness and > different ideas about what CMS' should do across the various projects, > so contributing isn't always the best idea. > > Cheers, > Nicholas > > > > > On Jan 23, 12:34 am, buzzware <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWIW I would be saddened to see another weekend hack Ruby CMS, but I'd > > love > > to see these company-backed ones (refinery, browsercms) made awesome. > > Being Ruby and on GitHub, its pretty easy to make modifications that > > can be eventually merged into the main codebase. > > > > If you must start from scratch (and there may be good reasons to) I > > would > > like to add that I think Radiants "no fluff" attitude sets the bar too > > low > > for what should be core functionality. eg. the ability to reorder > > pages > > in Radiant requires an extension, and I couldn't find one as natural > > to use > > as bcms's built in drag and drop. > > There are things that are very hard to add later , > > and there are things that are necessary for 90% of projects with > > non-technical users eg. a decent editor - that should be in early. > > Along these lines I would strongly suggest making it an engine or > > whatever that can integrate with an existing app eg. Spree or plain > > Rails > > -- > 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.
