# Document Management System in Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/document-management-system-in-rails/102378>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 15, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/document-management-system-in-rails/102378 "2006-08-15T14:16:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![daya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@daya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daya)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/document-management-system-in-rails/102378/1 "2006-08-15T14:16:34Z")

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Hi

Is anyone aware of any Document Management System in Rails. Googling  
didn’t  
help me find any Rails based solution.

The DMS I need, need to have the following feature apart form the usual  
ones.

1. Version control of documents.
2. Tracking version control for each group of users independently from  
the  
other group . These groups may share the same document name but may have  
different contents or revisions.
3. In built file server if possible.

Can somebody please point me in the right direction.

thanks  
-daya

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**Author:** ![daya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@daya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daya)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/document-management-system-in-rails/102378/2 "2006-08-15T14:18:51Z")

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On 10/08/06, linux user [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Is anyone aware of any Document Management System in Rails. Googling  
> didn’t help me find any Rails based solution.

It sounds like you need a version control system with a web interface.  
Most  
will, I find darcs[1] easiest to set up.

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**Author:** ![daya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@daya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daya)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/document-management-system-in-rails/102378/3 "2008-12-04T07:11:08Z")

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Daya S. wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Is anyone aware of any Document Management System in Rails. Googling  
> didn’t  
> help me find any Rails based solution.
> 
> The DMS I need, need to have the following feature apart form the usual  
> ones.
> 
> 1. Version control of documents.
> 2. Tracking version control for each group of users independently from  
> the  
> other group . These groups may share the same document name but may have  
> different contents or revisions.
> 3. In built file server if possible.
> 
> Can somebody please point me in the right direction.
> 
> thanks  
> -daya

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Hi Daya,

Do you need something like SVN show log functionality?  
Wherein from rails interface you can see logs/file changes and the users  
who made the changes?

Pardon me if I misunderstood what you mean.

In Ruby there is an “rscm” (rscm-0.5.1.gem) gem that can communicate to  
your SVN.

Please see this link below:  
[http://rscm.rubyforge.org/](http://rscm.rubyforge.org/) - API documentation of the gem  
[http://rubyforge.iasi.roedu.net/gems/](http://rubyforge.iasi.roedu.net/gems/) - link where rscm gem can be  
downloaded