Utilizing Wordpress & VBulletin together with Rails isn't the best idea. It's do-able but it's the way Rails was intended to be used... so whoever does it will need to jump through hoops.
I'd recommend looking at Rails based alternatives. Beast & Rboard are open source projects for forums. On the blogging side, there isn't anything as nice as Wordpress on Rails but you might look at Typo, Mephisto & BrowserCMS. On the video uploading side, you've got Panda (http://pandastream.com) you could utilize to upload & process videos. For the rest of the project, Rails would be a good fit, particularly since it sounds like you'll mostly be doing CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update & Delete on records.) Overall, my answer to your question is Yes. Rails is well suited for your app. On May 28, 8:45 pm, Jack Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > Would ROR be a good choice to build my site? > > Hi Gang, > > I'm in the process of developing a social media-ish site built around > WordPress and VBulletin forum. A site where a visitor has a username and > password and their own "page" on the site where various site > interactions take place. I need a CMS framework to tie them all together > along with other features like multimedia, video uploading/severing/, > news/articles/information as well as user/visitor created content ala/ > wiki's. I'll need a user-friendly backend to control the functionality. > (aside from Wordpress and VBulletin's existing backends) > Would ROR be suited for this sort of development? I'm going to be hiring > a developer very soon and would like to have some honest opinions from > those that know the platforms best. My current direction has me leaning > toward Joomla or Drupal but I've heard so much about ROR lately, I want > to find out more about it and if it's the best choice for my project. > > I hope to hear some good opinions. Thanks. > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
