# Content Management the Rails way

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-management-the-rails-way/164058>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 27, 2009, 10:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-management-the-rails-way/164058 "2009-03-27T10:35:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![niczm25](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@niczm25](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/niczm25)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 10:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-management-the-rails-way/164058/1 "2009-03-27T10:35:36Z")

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Hi guys,  
I’m currently looking into the CMS’s we use at the moment in house with  
an  
aim to replace them with a Rails / Ruby based system to match our  
application stacks (we do 50/50 app / CMS development). At the moment  
we’re  
using Joomla and a CMS written in ColdFusion.

Question is, I’ve looked at Radiant, Comatose etc and these all seem  
very  
very simplistic. Is anyone aware of anything out there similar to  
systems  
such as Joomla? Is there anything out there that doesn’t treat a content  
item solely as a page but as something that can be rendered in lots of  
different places at once?

Cheers fellas

–  
Neil M.

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**Author:** ![niczm25](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@niczm25](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/niczm25)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-management-the-rails-way/164058/2 "2009-03-28T17:45:28Z")

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Neil M. wrote:

> a content item solely as a page but as something that can be rendered  
> in lots of different places at once?  
> Not sure what you mean by the last part, but Radiant has snippets that  
> can be rendered in lots of different places. If you could clarify a bit  
> more about what you mean, I could help you see if Radiant is similar to  
> what you need.

Cheers,  
Mohit.  
3/29/2009 | 12:44 AM.

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**Author:** ![niczm25](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@niczm25](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/niczm25)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-management-the-rails-way/164058/3 "2009-03-28T17:54:59Z")

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Mohit S. wrote:

> Neil M. wrote:
> 
> > a content item solely as a page but as something that can be rendered  
> > in lots of different places at once?  
> > Not sure what you mean by the last part, but Radiant has snippets that  
> > can be rendered in lots of different places.

+1. Also, Radiant is super-easy to extend with plugins.

–  
Roderick van Domburg  
[http://www.nedforce.com](http://www.nedforce.com)