Stephen, Specially thanks for your in-depth response. I'm meeting with the customer today and your thoughts will be very helpful. Very Appreciated, Rich
Stephen Eley wrote: > 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. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
