[Rails] (newbie?) Questions regarding local Rails installations as a CMS for remote websites

[Samo Korosec]

No love?

:o(

On Dec 14, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Samo Korosec wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> I hope this is the right place to ask. I'm new to Ruby and Rails  
> and after some of the demos I saw I want to make my next CMS with  
> Rails. The idea behind using Rails is basically to have the Rails  
> CMS run locally on the customer's intranet/computer and  
> synchronising it with their website as needed. The reason for the  
> more "complicated" approach is the tendency of customers to have  
> "their" webspace providers run anything from Linux/PHP/MySQL only  
> to Windows/PHP/MSSQL and I don't want to rewrite the CMS all the  
> time - plus they have an up to date version of their website for  
> backup at all times.
>
> So the questions: Is something like that feasible? I tought of  
> uploading new content via FTP and sending an update to MySQL  
> directly or even uploading an XML file and loading that into MySQL  
> via PHP/Whatever. Are there ways to simply synchronise/access the  
> remote (My)SQL database and upload the neccessary data via FTP? Do  
> you guys have any pointers where I should look for the relevant  
> information or which functions/functionality I should look up in  
> the documentation? Are there any special situations to consider or  
> does anyone have experience with something similiar?
>
> I hope that's not too vague/newbish, have a nice day everyone!
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