On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Richard Boldway <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have done websites with RoR CMS systems before and that is not a bad > approach but why not in Merb? Google could not find any Merb-based CMS > systems as of yet. Does anyone know of one?
I'm working on one as well, though I think Samo's is probably further along in terms of committed code: http://github.com/SFEley/malcontent/tree/master I've blogged about the design motivations behind my starting a CMS project here: http://extraneous.org/past/tags/malcontent The thing is... If the client wants fast delivery and a site that works, you're probably better off using Joomla or Drupal or something else mature and stable. This is especially true if the client *said* Joomla by name. There are no Merb solutions that aren't in infancy, and the Rails systems just can't compete with the PHP ones for feature set or back-end sophistication. Radiant has some merit but it's a lightweight CMS for geeks, not for business users. I've seen a couple of others in Rails but nothing's really close to 1.0. I wish that were otherwise -- I think it's bizarre that CMS in Ruby is so undeveloped right now, and it's why I'm working on one. But mine's pretty specialized in its focus too; it'll never compete with Joomla. If you wanted this for your own site I'd say "give Radiant a shot," but if you're being paid to deliver quality for someone else, follow their requirements and the path of least resistance. Oh. Joomla does have caching built in. You just have to turn it on. And the fact that Joomla is GPL licensed does *not* mean that all content or customizations have to be open sourced. It just means that you can't *distribute* your own version of Joomla without making the source available. Content and private changes are not a problem. -- Have Fun, Steve Eley ([email protected]) ESCAPE POD - The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine http://www.escapepod.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" 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/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
