[Rails] [ANN] Zena 1.1.0 + dreamhost

Hi there ! If you want to test Zena between to rounds of beach volley, wave jumping, ice climbing or whatever you do when not sitting in front of a screen, I fixed many annoying bugs in the 1.0 release and created a brick to ease deployment on shared hosting. There is even a small manual to

[Rails] [ANN] Zena 1.0 Amen Break release

Hi there ! I am very happy to announce the first public release of Zena, a Ruby on Rails CMS on which I started working in 2005. Since these early days, Zena has grown from a website with content management (think wordpress) to a framework to build complex agile applications. The data model in

[Rails] Zena transition to 1.0: any encouragement or help welcome

Hi list ! The refactoring to use RubyLess in the templates and improve custom attributes handling (Property) that started in autumn 2009 was quite big and now many tests in the 1.0 branch fail. Such important changes are hard to endure because there is a time when the feature set and stability

[Rails] Re: Zena transition to 1.0: any encouragement or help welcom

PS: You can use 'gold' to ease code update and pushing: http://github.com/zena/gold During setup: reviewer email = gaspard(at)teti.ch current gold branch = 1.0-pre (not master) If you do not want to use gold, you have to track the 1.0-pre branch by hand: git clone

[Rails] [ANN] released Zena CMS 0.16.5

Hi list ! This is a bug fix release of the coolest CMS around (yes, I am biased). http://bit.ly/bYm7Rm I hope this is the last release on the 0.16.x branch and we can move to the 1.0 branch because there are really exciting new features in this branch that I can't wait to start playing with.

[Rails] [ANN] released Property gem

Hi there ! Just a quick note to let you know that zena has produced a new funky gem: It's called Property and lets you wrap rails model attributes into a single database column and declare properties from within the model. http://bit.ly/ai9wmC Rails scaffolding and replacing the migration by

[Rails] is Rails a CMS ?

Hi list ! More often then not when talking about zena, I find people saying that we don't need no freakin' CMS, Rails *is* a CMS. I posted an article on zenadmin.org with some reflections around this issue and why some people find it useful to build such tools for rails (adva-cms, radiant,

[Rails] Re: is Rails a CMS ?

Leonardo Mateo wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Gaspard Bucher rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net wrote: Hi list ! More often then not when talking about zena, I find people saying that we don't need no freakin' CMS, Rails *is* a CMS. Oh come on! Seriously? In fact, the complete

[Rails] Re: Combining rails intrAnet and public site.

Hi nick ! We have been doing exactly that with zena for years (public visitor = anonymous login). I think your use case could be very interesting to try with the new zena as gem: 1. single login system 2. in all your current controllers before_filter :check_visitor_rights def

[Rails] Re: zena first gem: need testing

Gaspard Bucher wrote: Hi List ! Zena is reaching maturity and we are in the process to deliver the CMS as a gem for the first time. Before pushing the gem in the wild, it would be really nice if some people could test the thing and give me some feedback... download page

[Rails] Re: zena first gem: need testing

Hassan Schroeder wrote: Download page with instructions: http://bit.ly/31nW1l It would be good if that page listed dependencies, so people wouldn't waste time getting to e.g. Can't install RMagick 2.11.1. Can't find MagickWand.h. *** extconf.rb failed *** Alternatively, you might

[Rails] Re: zena first gem: need testing

Hassan Schroeder wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Gaspard Bucher rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net wrote: ... but since images are a major component of any website nowaday and since one of the goals with zena is to let non-photoshop enabled people use their huge images without

[Rails] Re: Combining rails intrAnet and public site.

nick ger wrote: Gaspard, thank you for a reply. I checked out zena before, and while it is a good CMS in it's own right I don't think I can use it as it would require me to rewrite a huge a existing application, or write api hooks. I was mostly looking for a RAILS WAY strategy to

[Rails] Re: How to exit rails application from within

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: Damjan Rems wrote: [...] Sadly my server is Windows. I am working on an application for internal users which runs Word and Excel with ole automation a lot to provide output documents in pdf. There are better ways to build PDF files. If you can tell us a bit

[Rails] Re: Combining rails intrAnet and public site.

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: nick ger wrote: Gaspard, while we are on the subject i was recently considering different systems, and while right now I'm using restful_authentication I looked at authlogic as well. Any particular reason you prefer it over other rails authorization systems?

[Rails] [ANN] zena 0.15.0 release

First public release for zena, the CMS with super natural powers ! zena is a Ruby on Rails CMS with a focus on usability, ease of customization and web 2.0 goodness. More information on this release: http://bit.ly/1CR0lW Please note that this release is not a 1.0 (end of beta) because we are

[Rails] zena first gem: need testing

Hi List ! Zena is reaching maturity and we are in the process to deliver the CMS as a gem for the first time. Before pushing the gem in the wild, it would be really nice if some people could test the thing and give me some feedback... download page with instructions: http://bit.ly/31nW1l

[Rails] Re: rails security help

Marli Ba wrote: Hey I was wondering if anyone knows of a gem or plugin that can limit fields returned based on the User's role? I'm looking for something that will basically rewrite the find() method to limit the fields returned based on the User role. so, Admin: Product.all = returns

[Rails] Re: [ANN] gold: a script to ease git based team work

Robert Walker wrote: Gaspard Bucher wrote: I created a script to ease workflow on zena, a rails CMS (http://zenadmin.org). Nice, thanks for contributing. Is this intended to be lighter weight substitution for a real Continuous Integration (CI) system? Don't most teams that need

[Rails] [ANN] gold: a script to ease git based team work

Hi list ! I created a script to ease workflow on zena, a rails CMS (http://zenadmin.org). The workflow involves developers and reviewers (can be the same people): 1. each developer has his own fork (on github or another git server) 2. he creates a branch per feature 3. a reviewer looks at the

[Rails] [ANN] querybuilder 0.5.0 Released

querybuilder version 0.5.0 has been released (yet another gem extracted from zena) ! * http://github.com/zena/querybuilder/tree/master QueryBuilder is an interpreter for the pseudo sql language. This language can be used for two purposes: 1. protect your database from illegal SQL by securing

[Rails] Re: Passenger and multi-site application

Basically, the question boils down to: How to configure RAILS_ROOT in passenger ? Gaspard On Jan 2, 6:15 pm, Gaspard Bucher gasp...@teti.ch wrote: Hi list ! I am trying to test zena (http://zenadmin.org) with passenger (http://www.modrails.com/). The basic setting is point apache

[Rails] Passenger and multi-site application

Hi list ! I am trying to test zena (http://zenadmin.org) with passenger (http://www.modrails.com/). The basic setting is point apache to the '/zena/public' directory. This is fine for a single site application but zena is a little different: Cached content = '/zena/sites/some.host/public'

[Rails] Re: Multiple versions of a site (different languages)

You might want to have a look at the data model we use in zena (http:// zenadmin.org/en/documentation/list333.html), the translated texts are stored in the versions table. The table also stores current publications along with redactions and old texts. We do not store language preferences in a

[Rails] capistrano without ssh (local)

Hello ! Is there a way to use capistrano without ssh ? (remote == local) The idea is to use the deploy tasks on a local machine. Thanks for any idea. Gaspard --- project: zena, incredible rails CMS (http://zenadmin.org) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[Rails] Re: js solution to sort/edit tables with ajax

There is this: http://yoast.com/articles/sortable-table/ (just a sorting solution) On 22 oct. 08, at 21:37, Gaspard Bucher wrote: What is your best solution to table display/edit/sort using ajax ? I've bumped into these: dhtmlxGrid: http://www.dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxGrid

[Rails] Plug and play installation for zena CMS

Since the most difficult part for the moment is getting zena to work due to the large number of dependencies, I have created a virtualbox server, ready for download and play: A ruby on rails server, configured and running at your fingertips: http://zenadmin.org/479 Gaspard

[Rails] One clic application for rails on OSX

Hi ! I am thinking about preparing an all-in-one application to run zena on mac OSX without installing any dependencies. The application should contain: 1. ruby 2. imagemagick 3. gems: rake mongrel mongrel_cluster rmagick tzinfo RedCloth syntax mongrel_upload_progress uuidtools daemons

[Rails] Re: zena CMS first public release !

I fixed #223 by replacing the star with a plus sign. The change has been pushed to subversion and github. Gaspard + is proberly better, unless you get into trubble, with ruby since + is an operator regards svend On Oct 6, 9:20 pm, Gaspard Bucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You

[Rails] Re: One clic application for rails on OSX

It seems locomotive is not so alive anymore... I think about using macports to easily install binaries in a custom path lik /Applications/ zena.app/Contents/Resources/opt and then take this thing as the package. I will have a look at MAMP to see if I can adapt this framework to include ruby

[Rails] Re: monit newbie problem

/cpericard and see how it works. Setting env -i in the shell reproduces the environment used in monit, so it lets you test your command as if it was run by monit. Gaspard Gaspard Bucher wrote: Try running your start program without any environment variables (as it is probably run by monit

[Rails] Re: monit newbie problem

I'm not sure you need to include the '/usr/bin/ruby' in your start program. The following setup works for me: check process mongrel-8007 with pidfile /var/zena/current/log/mongrel. 8007.pid start program = /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/mongrel_rails start -d -e production -p 8007 -a 127.0.0.1 -P

[Rails] [ANN] zena CMS first public release !

After 3 years of work in my cave, I am happy to go out in the sunlight to announce the first public beta release of zena ! In a few words: Zena is a CMS based on ruby on rails with a very advanced xhtml based templating language called zafu. Sites have been running in production mode for nearly

[Rails] Re: zena CMS first public release !

for templates) test/helpers/query_builder/*.yml (yaml tests for pseudo sql) Do not hesitate to ask questions... Gaspard On Oct 6, 6:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks impressive. I am looking foward to testing the CMS. regards svend On Oct 6, 10:09 am, Gaspard Bucher

[Rails] Using taint/untait for security

Le 23 sept. 08 à 13:30, Lionel Bouton a écrit : Gaspard Bucher a écrit, le 09/23/2008 12:36 PM : I thought to use the taint/untaint mechanisme included with ruby to enhance security in zena. I have read that using taint is not that good for the following reasons: * It's not working

[Rails] Using taint/untait for security

I thought to use the taint/untaint mechanisme included with ruby to enhance security in zena. I have read that using taint is not that good for the following reasons: * It's not working on certain implementations of ruby (JRuby, IronRuby, ...) * It's a lot of work to make work (lots of tiny

[Rails] naming the visitor's contact object (zena).

Hi there ! I'm working on a multi-site CMS (http://zenadmin.org). In this tool, a user can participate in many websites. In each of these websites, there is a Contact node (record) for this user. [skip] This record is used to show the person's information _for a specific website_ since

[Rails] Re: naming the visitor's contact object (zena).

Anyone with an idea on this topic ? Thanks for any reply... Gaspard Hi there ! I'm working on a multi-site CMS (http://zenadmin.org). In this tool, a user can participate in many websites. In each of these websites, there is a Contact node (record) for this user. [skip] This record is