[Rails] [ANN] Rails CMS(with live demo): community response needed

[jason watkins]

It sounds like you have a good solution. I'd be interested in seeing it, 
speaking for myself, and I imagine other people would as well.

If you can't invest the time to continue to develop it, perhaps consider 
open sourcing it so that some of us can contribute to it?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dmitry V. Sabanin" <sdmitry at lrn.ru>
To: <rails at lists.rubyonrails.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:53 PM
Subject: [Rails] [ANN] Rails CMS(with live demo): community response needed


> Hi!
>
> First,  let me introduce myself and my project.
> I'm Dmitry Sabanin from Russia, where I own small web-development
> company where we use Ruby quite heavily for a couple of years now.
> After early Rails I've been following it's development and started
> writing Rails CMS that will make my job as a lead developer easier
> and more productive. After few tries, I've come up with following
> idea.
> Rails by itself makes interfaces that visitor interacts with much
> easier to develop, so I've decided to create CMS that will manage
> only _content_ and it's structure, not the way it will be shown to
> user. My CMS gives you the power to manage content and API that you
> can use in your Rails frontend. Wrting frontends is as easy as
> creating an empty controller, requiring MuraveyWeb API and writing a
> view like:
> <% for news in Mapping[:News].items %>
> <b><%= news.title %>:</b> <%= news.data %>
> <% end %>
>
> MuraveyWeb itself is a W3C JS powered monster, with explorer-like
> folder interface, for now it works only with Mozillas. There are many
> neat things as WYSIWYG HTML editor, textile articles support and
> server-side image transformations(just a rotation tool for now).
>
> And now -- the problem. I don't have much time to develop all this and
> the project stalled with rails version 0.9.3. Also, there's a lot of
> things I want to add to the system. That's not a big problem for me
> to find time and migrate to the newest Rails and start developing
> MuraveyWeb again. But, I need to know that somebody wants CMS like
> this and will use it. I don't want to invest my time in something
> that nobody wants :)
> I can make official release in a week or two if there are any
> potential users around. I will offer any help that I can give to
> those who will want to try that.
>
> ---------
> If that interests you, I've setup a copy of my clients site MuraveyWeb
> at the http://tools.muravey.net/login/
> login: demo
> password: demo
>
> Please make sure that you're browsing that with Mozilla or Firefox, as
> it's not IE compatible yet. Also, there are some visible layout bugs
> that could appear in some places, that's mainly because I usually
> develop everything at 1600x1200. Those will be fixed in no time.
> ---------
>
> You can do whatever you want, but make sure you don't change password
> on users, so anyone else will be able to play too.
>
> P.S. The code for MW is in CVS, so you can see it, but I'm sure it
> will not work on new Rails because it need some tweaking.
> http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/MuraveyWeb/?cvsroot=muravey-tools
>
> P.P.S. Sorry for my messy english :)
>
> Thanks for your time,
> -- 
> sdmitry -=- Dmitry V. Sabanin
> http://muravey.net
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