Radiant in my opinion is too young to handle a fully dynamic website with tons of content. I really like Rails and Radiant, but in all honesty Radiant still ways to go to even compete with full-featured CMSs such as Typo3 and Joomla! which are amazingly complete, robust, open source and free. I still find many more willing PHP developers than Ruby/Rails devs...so that's something you might want to keep in consideration. Also PHP is much, much, much more widely supported by web hosts than Rails is. At the end it's your decish; however, if I was in your shoes, I'd deploy a php-based CMS for the time being and later on (once Radiant or any other Rails-based CMS matures to such a level) you can make the move.
Peace,
Ruben
On 10/27/06, Greg Farries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all - I've cleared this request/email with John W. Long...
I'm interested in possibly using Ruby on Rails for a political educational
project that I currently manage. Currently the website (Maple Leaf Web -
http://www.mapleleafweb.com) is completely static, and it is getting harder
and harder to manage the content. I've gone through a redesign phase
(designing just a few of the pages, so I could get an idea of how the
navigation, and subpages would be laid out)
[http://www.mapleleafweb.ca/redesign/index.html], and I am now looking to
install a CMS to manage the content. I have extensive experience with
WordPress - but I don't think even a modified version of WordPress would
accomplish all the requirements we need. I've have also inquired with a
couple developers who work with Drupal. However, I'm not convinced that
Drupal is up to the task - it's a powerful CMS, but more oriented towards
building online communities that serving feature/backgrounders. I have also
been stung by a few Drupal developers who say they can deliver, only to
disappoint.
I've always been intrigued by Rails, particularly after Alistapart was
redesigned and employed Ruby on Rails as core of the CMS. I also use
FeedDigest a lot, which from what I understand uses Ruby on Rails for some
of its front-end. I became aware of RadiantCMS after I was searching for a
decent (mature) CMS that used Ruby. However, there seems to be a large gap
between existing Ruby on Rails websites and any mature Ruby on Rails CMS.
RadiantCMS seems to be heads and shoulders above the other opensource Ruby
on Rails CMS.
I think Alistapart [http://alistapart.com] is fairly close to what we need
for Maple Leaf Web (and as far as I know, they use Ruby on Rails), and I'm
interested in an opinions about whether this can be accomplished for a
non-profit organization and or whether Ruby on Rails is the platform that
can accomplish what we need done. I am also impressed at the implementation
of RadiantCMS for the Ruby website, http://www.ruby-lang.org - which I think
closely resembles what we need for Maple Leaf Web; lots of content, with
sidebars pointing the user to additional/related content.
Unfortunately, budget is always a concern when dealing with an organization
that lives through charity of others. Does developers on this mailing list
provide discounts for verifable non-profits looking for development? If
not, do any of you know of anyone who would be interested in developing a
Ruby on Rails CMS in exchange for a "sponsorship" mention/links on the new
design? In the past we've provided a link in the footer of each sub-page on
the site.
We have a great deal of traffic (44,575 Visits, 265,533 page views as of
October 25, 2006) and we're willing to provide some positive exposure to
companies/individuals that help.
If you require more details of our requirements, please contact me and I'll
forward more information.
Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide,
Thanks,
Greg Farries M.A.
Project Manager
http://mapleleafweb.com
Phone: 403.329.2286
Fax: 403.382.7148
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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