# ANN: New Rails-based hosted content management system

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-rails-based-hosted-content-management-system/175697>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 17, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-rails-based-hosted-content-management-system/175697 "2009-09-17T22:42:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-rails-based-hosted-content-management-system/175697/1 "2009-09-17T22:42:17Z")

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My colleague Christopher Haupt and I have been working for two years  
on a Rails-based hosted content management system, and it’s recently  
emerged from Beta. We’d love to hear your feedback: you can sign up  
for a free account at [www.webvanta.com](http://www.webvanta.com), or watch the intro video at  
[Video: How Webvanta Delivers Superior, Turnkey Websites and Apps](http://www.webvanta.com/video)

(We’re the guys who created the Learning Rails online course that you  
may be familiar with.)

Webvanta uses Rails under the hood (and borrows some stuff from  
Radiant), but it is designed for folks who want to be able to build  
dynamic web sites with custom data structures without any back-end  
programming. We’re trying to deliver (part of) the value of Rails to  
web designers who don’t have the time or interest to build Rails apps,  
and for projects where the budget doesn’t support it.

This project arose from custom work we were doing, and the observation  
that so many of the needs were common across projects. It’s taken on a  
life of its own and is now our full-time business venture.

For now, this is a hosted service only, but we’re exploring the  
possibility of publishing an open-source version.

Thanks for any feedback you can offer.

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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-rails-based-hosted-content-management-system/175697/2 "2009-09-18T20:01:22Z")

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Michael,  
That was a fun video. Can you tell me how you implemented your  
‘WizzyWig?’ WSIWYG editor? It was cool and seems much easier on the  
eyes than the TinyMCE I’m using now.  
Thanks,  
David

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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-rails-based-hosted-content-management-system/175697/3 "2009-09-19T23:37:50Z")

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It’s a customized version of FCKeditor. All of these editors are a  
mixed bag. The next generation of FCK editor has since debuted, as  
CKeditor, which looks promising, and which we’ll probably integrate at  
some point.

We use a customized version of CodeMirror for the code editor mode.

See [Webvanta Hosted CMS Technology Stack](http://www.webvanta.com/technology) for a list of things we use.

Michael

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