Re: Rails CMS best fit

Erwin
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:30:51 -0000

Thanks for your feedback..

I also looked into Locomotive, good ( I know  Mongoid) but the project
needs MySQL...
After looking at other existing Rails CMS : Alchemy, Radiant,
Refinery, Comfortable Mexican Sofa ( C.M.S. !) and also browserCMS, my
feeling is that none of them are actually true good engines for our
project ..  rather than describing what I mean by that , better giving
an example of a good one : "forem" ( https://github.com/radar/forem )

''forem'' brings a complete forum app as an engine to our
existing rails
web apps:
- can be mounted at root or subdomain level,
- reuse our Devise authentication module, forem initialize with the
declared ''user'' class, and ''current_user''
helper
- forem internal authorization is based on CanCan, and  permissions
can be superseded within the declared ''user'' class

said that, we are currently looking into Alchemy code ( good
''content''
management ) to see how we could adapt it (to the ''forem'' way)
regarding authentication and authorization ( I know that the new
Refinery aims at using authentication/authorization engines.... but
Refinery cannot be mounted at subdomain level which is mandatory in
our project

thanks again



On 17 oct, 16:12, masta Blasta
<li...-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
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> Kad Kerforn wrote in post #1080098:
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> > I already have a project with multiple subdomains under development
> > ( Rails 3.2.8 , MySQL,  Haml , Devise , Cancan )
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> >www.myproject.com is the main site
> > many subdomains will be created   :  sub1.myproject.com,
> > sub2.myproject.com,  sub3.myproject.com, ...
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> > We need now to add CMS functionalities to the main domain and to each
> > subdomain, ( different layouts , different sets of pages )
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> > What could be currently  the best CMS engine choice ? ( at least the
> > most adapted to this goal..)
> > Radiant , Alchemy Refinery or even Locomotive ( with this one, I know
> > we should switch to Mongoid ORM, but why not ..) or any other
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> > thanks for feedback
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> I''ve just started building a site with BrowserCMS. It''s
fairly well
> featured, and allows for easy integration of outside controllers and
> models. Documentation is good - not great - however the developers are
> really responsive in the google group.
> here is the project:https://github.com/browsermedia/browsercms
> One thing about browserCMS is that it uses it''s own authentication
> methods so you might have issues using Devise.
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> I also tried locomotive but i found it lacking in features and
> documentation. Also the switch to mongoid has a learning curve to it if
> you''re not already familiar. Locomotive has potential, but it is
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> early in development.https://github.com/locomotivecms
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