Kirk H. wrote:
that product.
Kirk H.
Good idea. I hear of moodle but never actually had a chance to use it in
school. I’ll take a good look at it before undertaking this project.
Nic
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
I’ll second Moodle … only problem with it is that it’s written in
PHP, not Ruby/Rails.It’s a piece of cake to get up and running. In fact, if you’re willing
to wait a couple of days, I’ll have a VMWare virtual machine with a
complete Gentoo Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP/Moodle stack up on my web site.
It’s queued up behind a similar virtual machine with a Rails stack.
So, would there be an advantage to having a Rails CMS? I was also
thinking about developing a testing module for this CMS. One thing I’ve
noticed is that most of the current systems out there have poor testing
modules. I envisioned something similar to Lon-capa and Webwork to very
popular systems with Physics and Math professors.
Nic
I don’t know that there would be any advantage to a course management
system other than Moodle at this point. I have two web sites running it
and I’d hate to see a bunch of Ruby/Rails developers reinventing Moodle
just for the joy of it. It’s a package, it does exactly what I need and
I don’t much care about the internals. I don’t even know PHP and barely
know how to configure Apache and MySQL. It’s that easy to set up. 
I’d rather see Rails effort go into new application areas. Basecamp is a
perfect example. There’s nothing else like it that I’ve found written in
any technology.
Nicolas K. wrote:
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2006/4/18, pat eyler [email protected]:
projects that were started and never finished or are unreleased.
Maybe someone would like to pick up rwb. I’m happy to provide help,
pointers, cheerleading, etc.
ruSH seemed nice too
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ruby-talk&m=112802830129958&w=2
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rush
How about a specialized school CMS? School sites require other
features than club sites 
Maybe a list of timetable changes,
information about exams, consortium and event sites.
Huh. I don’t know if you guys are actually using moodle or just
administering it, but as someone who uses it a ton I can tell you I
would love a replacement. It’s pretty much horrible to use as a
teaching assistant. When posting an assignment I have to make about 15
clicks, copy and paste a url, upload a “resource”, blah, blah, blah.
The grading interface makes it incredibly easy to loose a whole class
worth of grades, the comments for each graded assignment are only about
50 chars long, it’s difficult to find things that should be simple… I
could go on for a while, and so could every other assistant in my
department. Please write a better moodle!
Beyond me being incredibly annoyed at moodle almost daily, I don’t think
the fact that something exists should ever be much of a deterrent. How
many search engines were “working just fine” before google came around?
How many programming languages already let you do the same things
that you can do in ruby? It’s all about learning from what others have
done and doing it better, isn’t it? I guess there might be diminishing
returns if you are re-implementing something huge for minimal
improvement, but I can bet that won’t be the case with moodle.
-Jeff
P.S. If you need user input I’ve got 20 colleagues who would love to
vent, er, help moodle on rails
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
written in any technology.
Nicolas K. wrote:
Thanks for the input. I’ll keep thinking.
Nic
- Specialized CMS (content management systems) for schools, clubs,
etc (calendaring, events, forms, contacts, etc)
How about some sort of ‘Ruby/Rails/Whatever User Group Organizer’?
On 4/19/06, Codeblogger [email protected] wrote:
- Specialized CMS (content management systems) for schools, clubs,
etc (calendaring, events, forms, contacts, etc)
How about some sort of ‘Ruby/Rails/Whatever User Group Organizer’?
-austin
Some more Idea I had for which I would like some comments:
An mail module (thanks to who ever mentioned the need for this) that
would extend the current mailread module:
This module would include some features inspired by the Python email
library
some tools to search sort and filter mail
Anything else I should think off ?
A search engine for site build on rails;
Google is great but some local search engine could be cool.
A mail package built on rails.
Thanks for you help everyone.
Nic