# Editing html online

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/editing-html-online/118319>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 25, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/editing-html-online/118319 "2007-10-25T16:56:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mhfs)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/editing-html-online/118319/1 "2007-10-25T16:56:09Z")

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Hello list,

My client wants a portal for his company. As far as Rails is concerned,  
all  
the functionality we came to agree on would be a piece of cake to  
implement  
on Rails. However, there’s something I’d like to have some advice on: He  
wants the pages of this portal to be editable online, similar to a wiki  
but  
the difference would be that every page would be editable via seperated  
admin interface. I’m not sure if eRB would be a good solution for this,  
I  
think I would have to use another templating language (since the  
objective  
is to have designers to mess with the page without bothering me or any  
other  
developers).

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance,

Marcelo.

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**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/editing-html-online/118319/2 "2007-10-25T18:03:30Z")

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On 10/25/07, Marcelo de Moraes S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> developers).
> 
> Any ideas?

Hi Marcelo,  
this sounds a bit more like a CMS than a wiki. The key difference is  
that  
designers can alter styles & layouts independently of developers or  
content submitters.

You should look at some of the Ruby CMS systems that are available  
(I am sorry that I can’t give you names or URLs offhand, but googling  
or searching rubyforge should get you a few hits).
