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

[Kyle Maxwell]

Why are you wanting to develop yet another CMS?  There are hundreds,
possibly thousands, of OSS and commercial CMS's available.  Surely one
of them does what you want.  If not, then find an OSS one and modify
it.  Off the top of my head, Macromedia/Adobe Contribute and Fog Creek
Citydesk would be the closest matches to what you envision.  I don't
know of their OSS equivalents.

Kyle

On 12/14/05, Samo Korosec <xype at froodee.net> 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!
> Samo
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