Thought some of you might be interested given the Frustrations with Rails CMS thread...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:02 PM Subject: Re: Just released our Rails CMS Webiva To: [email protected] Hi Brian, The Zissou CMS you saw on marthacoakley.com is actually an older production build of Webiva with some closed source advocacy and contributions modules. Replacing the old code editor (which sort of broke with firefox 3.5) with edit_area was definitely a big improvement. Some sort of template parsing would be neat, but there are some limitations as to what the system can support and still bring the page up correctly in the page editor. Paragraphs are actually drag and drop (you can pick them up by the little "P"), or they can be moved among the different zones with the arrow keys once selected by clicking on the "P") -Pascal On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:31:50 -0500, Brian Cardarella <[email protected]> wrote: > Pascal, > > Just doing a quick look and it seems very similar to the Zissou CMS > that you built for Liberty Concepts. One thing that I notice that is > better is the editing of Templates. In Zissou it was incredibly > frustrating (and TBH, pointless) to use the in-CMS template editor. > The client-side Javascript would screw around while I was inputing. > This seems to be far better. But I think I would still prefer to > upload templates that I develop in my own environment and have your > app parse them into the Template/Header/Styles/etc... > > I still don't get the idea of 'Paragraphs' when editing a page. You > did a pretty good job of making the file hierarchy drag-and-drop and I > would have liked to see the page editing to have a drag and drop with > the Paragraphs (I'll just assume those are widgets) > > Overall the CMS feel a lot snappier. But I'm not certain if that is > the server that this is running off of. > > - Brian > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Pascal Rettig <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I just wanted to shoot a message to the group that we just did the first >> numbered, open-source release of our formerly-internal CMS Webiva at >> http://www.webiva.org >> >> There's an introductory tutorial/screencast at: http://webiva.net/news >> >> We're still working hard on the install docs (getting a mac this week to >> try that whole crazy "os x" thing), but you can launch a demo from: >> http://demo.webiva.net if you want to play around with it. >> >> If anyone's interested in seeing the api for the system - there's a >> extensible module system that works off of rails plugins/engines - check >> out the module tutorial in http://webiva.net/doc/developer/ >> >> I'd love any feedback on the system (good or bad), we've been building >> it on and off for 3+ years and have been focused on stabilizing for an >> open-source release for the past six months. >> >> -Pascal >> >> -- >> Pascal F. Rettig >> Cykod.com >> Ph #617.398.0513 >> twitter.com/cykod >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Boston Ruby >> Group mailing list >> 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/boston-rubygroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Boston Ruby Group mailing list 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/boston-rubygroup -- 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.
