Drupal like cms

Rails
1

Hi Rails team,

How difficult to develop a Drupal like CMS in Rails? How long it will
take?

–
Nandri(Thanks in Tamil),
Amala S.

2

Not an easy task / app in Rails.

If started by a team of members, it will take min 1 years with all
common
functionality…

thanks

–
RajaRamesh

3

If it takes one year to develop a CMS in rails then is that rubbish that
have tutorials
that claim develop a blog in 15 minutes?

On 19 April 2010 07:07, Ramesh E [email protected] wrote:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

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Nandri(Thanks in Tamil),
Amala S.

4

On 19 April 2010 10:25, Amala S. [email protected] wrote:

If it takes one year to develop a CMS in rails then is that rubbish that
have tutorials
that claim develop a blog in 15 minutes?

It would take less than a year to develop a CMS for a client (I’ve done
it a
NUMBER of times), but to develop a CMS framework like Drupal would take
quite a while. Think about how long Drupal has been around and how many
man
years of effort have gone in to it.

You can develop a blog in 15-20 minutes, I’ve also put together some
fairly
complex CMS systems in a week or two of effort, but to build a complete
framework that would compete with Drupal would take a large amount of
effort.

Cheers,

Andy

5

Andy and Ramesh,

  Thanks for your views. I wonder why this is not taking up. I know

drupal is stealth.
But with handy rails in hand, if we start now, in a year we could make
not
only drupal,
a double or triple that of a drupal. Because I believe that drupal with
PHP,
not that
easy to make upgrades other than the core drupal team.

On 19 April 2010 10:34, Andy J. [email protected] wrote:

years of effort have gone in to it.

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6

There’s some CMS on Rails already. Had no experience with them, usually
you’re working on complex web services on Rails, rather than
Business-card-like sites. But here is a list

http://gist.github.com/242751

I guess Radiant CMS is most well-known and with bigger community.

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  Thanks for your views. I wonder why this is not taking up. I know

drupal is stealth.
But with handy rails in hand, if we start now, in a year we could make not
only drupal,
a double or triple that of a drupal. Because I believe that drupal with
PHP, not that
easy to make upgrades other than the core drupal team.

I’d say that the reasons are:

  1. Ready-built CMS systems like this are normally for the less
    technically
    capable - with that in mind, hosting a PHP application is much easier on
    most hosts than a Rails site.

  2. If you want to use a CMS system, the current systems are easily good
    enough and you probably don’t care what programming language it’s
    written
    in.

  3. If you are technical and want a CMS system you can customise for your
    needs or your client’s needs, then Radiant is probably good enough to
    get
    you up and running.

  4. If you are custom designing a site for a client, it’s quick enough to
    throw a CMS system together using a couple of generators/themes and gems

or build your own the first time and then keep using them for each new
client.

Just my 2p-worth

Cheers,

Andy