# Any type of Content Management System on Rails?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 19, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-type-of-content-management-system-on-rails/140896 "2008-06-19T16:05:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/captaffy)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-type-of-content-management-system-on-rails/140896/1 "2008-06-19T16:05:39Z")

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I am searching for some Ruby on Rails Content Management System, and I  
would like to compare with other PHP Content Management Systems.

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**Author:** ![captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/captaffy)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-type-of-content-management-system-on-rails/140896/2 "2008-06-19T16:09:11Z")

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[http://radiantcms.org/](http://radiantcms.org/)

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:05 AM, John S. \<

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**Author:** ![captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/captaffy)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-type-of-content-management-system-on-rails/140896/3 "2008-06-20T05:31:58Z")

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Jamey C. wrote:

> [http://radiantcms.org/](http://radiantcms.org/)
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> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:05 AM, John S. \<

Hi

Mostly All Rails CMS are listed here  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Ruby+on+Rails+based+CMS](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Ruby+on+Rails+based+CMS) you can  
check them out…AFAIK none of them are developed in a gr8 way…I mean  
there is no single CMS which is providing each and every capablity which  
should be there in a RAils project…

Thanks

Dhaval P.  
Software Engineer

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**Author:** ![captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/captaffy)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-type-of-content-management-system-on-rails/140896/4 "2008-06-20T06:39:37Z")

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John S. wrote:

> I am searching for some Ruby on Rails Content Management System, and I  
> would like to compare with other PHP Content Management Systems.

Hi John,

I think that you’ll be disappointed by the feature sets of the rails  
CMS’s compared to PHP. The PHP projects are quite a bit older & are much  
more mature.

Although lovdbyless & the community plugin, whilst not strictly being  
CMS’s provide a social network/blog straight out of the box with a  
feature set that exceeds the PHP CMS’s - for the social networking side  
of things.

Having battled with Joomla for a bit… I think the Rails way would be to  
build it yourself.

Building it yourself means your not constrained by what someone else  
thinks you needs. The flipside is you need to have the chops to develop  
what you want.

Restful authentication, Restful scaffolding, layouts, plugins, & the  
mentioned above make it possible to build something quite quickly.

On the ruby on rails home page there is a screencast of someone building  
a blog in 15 minutes. Its not very pretty & its not something I would  
ever put into production use, but you get the idea of rapid development.

Matt S.

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> The owner of this domain has not yet uploaded their website.

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**Author:** ![captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/captaffy)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 8:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-type-of-content-management-system-on-rails/140896/5 "2008-06-20T08:56:37Z")

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Matt S.1 wrote:  
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Thanks a lot for your help. I need to build a general CMS for all my  
projects. I know that do some type of CMS for each of my projects would  
be so easy, but make it general can need some more time.

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**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-type-of-content-management-system-on-rails/140896/6 "2008-06-22T17:02:33Z")

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Dhaval P. wrote:

> [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Ruby+on+Rails+based+CMS](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Ruby+on+Rails+based+CMS) you can  
> check them out…AFAIK none of them are developed in a gr8 way…I mean  
> there is no single CMS which is providing each and every capablity which  
> should be there in a RAils project…
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dhaval P.  
> Software Engineer  
> Actually, a lot depends on what you want to achieve - if you’re looking  
> at a dynamic replacement for a mostly static site, Radiant does very  
> very well! There are ways to extend it using Extensions so that you can  
> add whatever functionality is needed. However, there are a few things  
> that are missing compared to Drupal or Joomla.

Cheers,  
Mohit.  
6/22/2008 | 11:01 PM.