# Content distrubution in Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-distrubution-in-rails/152404>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 3, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-distrubution-in-rails/152404 "2008-11-03T16:25:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remco)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-distrubution-in-rails/152404/1 "2008-11-03T16:25:50Z")

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Hi,

I hope someone can suggest me some tips in case of content distrubution  
in Rails.

We have some great content in our database. The content are city-guides  
of 20 destionations (sports, culture, beaches ect)world-wide. Now the  
idea is that we want to distribute our content to our affiliate-partners  
websites. These website are NOT developed on RoR.

Qustions:

Are widgets the solution for this idea?  
Are data-feeds a good idea?  
Must we use a webservice…?

Bottom-line “what is the best solution the realize this idea”

Thanks…remco

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**Author:** ![remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remco)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-distrubution-in-rails/152404/2 "2008-11-03T20:06:22Z")

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Sounds interesting, not that I have an answer I am curious though:

“we want to distribute our content to our affiliate-partners” does this  
imply a push or pull from your site? Is this a paid for service for the  
data? Is the data moved to the affiliates or simply reading from your  
site as data is needed in pieces versus a complete copy of the data?

just curious…