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

[Adrian Madrid]

I would be very interested in something like this. So far I'm trying to 
use RoR for backends because I have my own CMs built in PHP and need 
something quick there. But I like very much what you have done with this 
CMS and would like to use it very much (specially if you port it over to 
0.10.0). Whenever I obtain more RoR Zen I would love to port some of my 
PHP stuff over.

Anyway, thanks for your sharing.


Adrian Madrid

Dmitry V. Sabanin wrote:

>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, 
>  
>


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