Are you possibly looking at a CMS? Have you looked at Ruby-based BrowserCMS, which has the ability to create Portlets that you can embed in a page?
Wayne On Jul 5, 4:57 pm, Sander Land <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been asked to find the most appropriate framework with which to > implement the following: > > A website with > 1. Modules, which separate (partially user-configurable) style, from > user settings, from content. A bit like the igoogle modules. > 2. ...which can be inserted in various places in a page, depending on > the user's preferences, again think netvibes, igoogle, librarything, > etc. > 3. ...which can be inserted via some Ajax magic into an external page. > No problem if this is limited to "no login" modules only. > 4. Also the whole thing has to have easy interaction with an XML-based > database and web services. No SQL database available. > 5. ...and be easy to use & open source, have many developers who like to > work with it. > > I was thinking (2) is fairly easy to do with a bit of > javascript/scriptaculous, also (3) can probably be added quite easily > with some limitations. > > So this leaves mainly > 1: Is there a standard way in rails, or a package, to easily render a > basic look of a module, with user settings and style in a standard way? > Support for skins? Anything that can help here? > 4: I know it's easy to make web services in Rails, but can you replace > the entire 'model' with something so different? > > If you know any other solutions than Rails that would work here, I'd > also like to hear them. I'm not expecting there is a full solution > available anywhere, but mostly looking for modules etc. which can help > to do part of this. The focus here is on quickly getting something out > and then drawing in other open-source developers for more modules. > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
