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

[Samo Korosec]

I want something that can drive Flash and HTML websites, that is easy  
to use and looks great (I only just started - http://www.froodee.net/ 
misc/cms_ui_01.jpg ). With Rails I think the development can be  
simplified quite a bit and with AJAX and script.aculo.us I can  
actually make a useable Interface for it.

I only need simple articles, media files and galleries for now, but  
later on I want to be able to extend it with a media management  
system, product database and catalogue system with the ability to  
generate print-ready PDFs. The fields I work in (marketing agencies,  
architecture bureaus, etc) would welcome simple solutions for that  
and of all the CMS systems I reviewed most seem to be done by  
programmers who stuff them full of features the secretary responsible  
for updating the company website will only get a heart attack from.  
And I think adapting one of those systems to suit my needs (and  
possibly maintaining a fork after that) would take as long if not  
longer than writing a simple one from scratch would.

Besides, any excuse to propagate the useage of Rails is good enough  
for me. ;o)

I know that "I R write teh CMS" sounds just like game developers who  
want to develop their own engine instead of using something that is  
already there and works just as well, but I considered a few  
solutions already and none of them works for me.

Samo

On Dec 14, 2005, at 10:12 PM, Kyle Maxwell wrote:

> 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