Rails - Jun 2007 - new to rails... suitable for what I wanna do?

Hi,
I have created and now maintain the website ratsdeville.com (http://
ratsdeville.com/index_e.html for english) for my brother. He creates
more and more content for it each week and I''m seriously feeling the
pain now archiving everything manually and making sure that links
works once items are archived (which I lost control of).

Like you can see, it is basically a news site about art expos and
people in Montreal. Several sections gets updated on a regular basis
(this week, culture, art) and the rest is mostly static. I need each
of this section to show only the most recent items but I also need a
way to find the older items.

Would rails make a nice solution for me? I know some Perl that I
learned by doing bioinformatics. I wanna learn an object oriented
language and Ruby seems very nice. I can handle Postgresql, I know
Linux very well. If rails is a solution, I would probably have my own
server running ubunu/mongrel/rails.

Thanks,
carl


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It can''t hurt to give it a try. The book "Agile Web Development
with Rails"
is a great introduction and will show you how to build a basic online store.
You could take what you learn from that and expand upon it to do what
you''re
doing.  See http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/ for more on
that.


If you''re not that keen on learning how to program, you could
investigate
one of the many content management systems out there.  Radiant is a very
nice Rails one... see http://radiantcms.org/ for more details.

There are others out there too. Some people even use Wordpress, a PHP
blogging solution, as a CMS.


Hope that helps!



On 6/28/07, DrCurl-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
<DrCurl-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> I have created and now maintain the website ratsdeville.com (http://
> ratsdeville.com/index_e.html for english) for my brother. He creates
> more and more content for it each week and I''m seriously feeling
the
> pain now archiving everything manually and making sure that links
> works once items are archived (which I lost control of).
>
> Like you can see, it is basically a news site about art expos and
> people in Montreal. Several sections gets updated on a regular basis
> (this week, culture, art) and the rest is mostly static. I need each
> of this section to show only the most recent items but I also need a
> way to find the older items.
>
> Would rails make a nice solution for me? I know some Perl that I
> learned by doing bioinformatics. I wanna learn an object oriented
> language and Ruby seems very nice. I can handle Postgresql, I know
> Linux very well. If rails is a solution, I would probably have my own
> server running ubunu/mongrel/rails.
>
> Thanks,
> carl
>
>
> >
>
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why not blog it? or custimize the blog. if thats all your planning to 
do, learning ror may be an overkill?

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Blog would not be enough, I need lots of space (many many images) and total
control on layout. Trying to know if RoR is overkill is my point here...

On 6/28/07, mixplate
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wrote:
>
>
> why not blog it? or custimize the blog. if thats all your planning to
> do, learning ror may be an overkill?
>
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>
> >
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Thanks a lot, radiantcms looks very nice!

On 6/28/07, Brian Hogan <bphogan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> It can''t hurt to give it a try. The book "Agile Web
Development with
> Rails" is a great introduction and will show you how to build a basic
online
> store. You could take what you learn from that and expand upon it to do
what
> you''re doing.  See
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/ for
> more on that.
>
>
> If you''re not that keen on learning how to program, you could
investigate
> one of the many content management systems out there.  Radiant is a very
> nice Rails one... see http://radiantcms.org/ for more details.
>
> There are others out there too. Some people even use Wordpress, a PHP
> blogging solution, as a CMS.
>
>
> Hope that helps!
>
>
>
> On 6/28/07, DrCurl-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
<DrCurl-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have created and now maintain the website ratsdeville.com (http://
> > ratsdeville.com/index_e.html for english) for my brother. He creates
> > more and more content for it each week and I''m seriously
feeling the
> > pain now archiving everything manually and making sure that links
> > works once items are archived (which I lost control of).
> >
> > Like you can see, it is basically a news site about art expos and
> > people in Montreal. Several sections gets updated on a regular basis
> > (this week, culture, art) and the rest is mostly static. I need each
> > of this section to show only the most recent items but I also need a
> > way to find the older items.
> >
> > Would rails make a nice solution for me? I know some Perl that I
> > learned by doing bioinformatics. I wanna learn an object oriented
> > language and Ruby seems very nice. I can handle Postgresql, I know
> > Linux very well. If rails is a solution, I would probably have my own
> > server running ubunu/mongrel/rails.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > carl
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> >
>
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Thanks a lot, radiantcms looks very nice!

On Jun 28, 12:51 pm, "Brian Hogan"
<bpho...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> It can''t hurt to give it a try. The book "Agile Web
Development with Rails"
> is a great introduction and will show you how to build a basic online
store.
> You could take what you learn from that and expand upon it to do what
you''re
> doing.  Seehttp://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/for more on
> that.
>
> If you''re not that keen on learning how to program, you could
investigate
> one of the many content management systems out there.  Radiant is a very
> nice Rails one... seehttp://radiantcms.org/for more details.
>
> There are others out there too. Some people even use Wordpress, a PHP
> blogging solution, as a CMS.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> On 6/28/07, DrC...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
<DrC...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I have created and now maintain the website ratsdeville.com (http://
> > ratsdeville.com/index_e.html for english) for my brother. He creates
> > more and more content for it each week and I''m seriously
feeling the
> > pain now archiving everything manually and making sure that links
> > works once items are archived (which I lost control of).
>
> > Like you can see, it is basically a news site about art expos and
> > people in Montreal. Several sections gets updated on a regular basis
> > (this week, culture, art) and the rest is mostly static. I need each
> > of this section to show only the most recent items but I also need a
> > way to find the older items.
>
> > Would rails make a nice solution for me? I know some Perl that I
> > learned by doing bioinformatics. I wanna learn an object oriented
> > language and Ruby seems very nice. I can handle Postgresql, I know
> > Linux very well. If rails is a solution, I would probably have my own
> > server running ubunu/mongrel/rails.
>
> > Thanks,
> > carl

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Or even Mephisto (http://mephistoblog.com/) might be an option, far
more than just a blogging tool...

On Jun 28, 1:12 pm, "DrC...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
<DrC...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Thanks a lot, radiantcms looks very nice!
>
> On Jun 28, 12:51 pm, "Brian Hogan"
<bpho...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > It can''t hurt to give it a try. The book "Agile Web
Development with Rails"
> > is a great introduction and will show you how to build a basic online
store.
> > You could take what you learn from that and expand upon it to do what
you''re
> > doing.  Seehttp://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/formore on
> > that.
>
> > If you''re not that keen on learning how to program, you could
investigate
> > one of the many content management systems out there.  Radiant is a
very
> > nice Rails one... seehttp://radiantcms.org/formore details.
>
> > There are others out there too. Some people even use Wordpress, a PHP
> > blogging solution, as a CMS.
>
> > Hope that helps!
>
> > On 6/28/07, DrC...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
<DrC...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > > I have created and now maintain the website ratsdeville.com
(http://
> > > ratsdeville.com/index_e.html for english) for my brother. He
creates
> > > more and more content for it each week and I''m seriously
feeling the
> > > pain now archiving everything manually and making sure that links
> > > works once items are archived (which I lost control of).
>
> > > Like you can see, it is basically a news site about art expos and
> > > people in Montreal. Several sections gets updated on a regular
basis
> > > (this week, culture, art) and the rest is mostly static. I need
each
> > > of this section to show only the most recent items but I also
need a
> > > way to find the older items.
>
> > > Would rails make a nice solution for me? I know some Perl that I
> > > learned by doing bioinformatics. I wanna learn an object oriented
> > > language and Ruby seems very nice. I can handle Postgresql, I
know
> > > Linux very well. If rails is a solution, I would probably have my
own
> > > server running ubunu/mongrel/rails.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > carl

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you can total control with mephisto blog tool. it comes with layouts you 
can customize to your own liking. learning a new language + framework 
for 1 small project sounds like an overkill. unless you got the time.

Carl Bolduc wrote:
> Blog would not be enough, I need lots of space (many many images) and 
> total
> control on layout. Trying to know if RoR is overkill is my point here...

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