# Is Rails a CMS? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 9, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-a-cms/178701 "2009-11-09T19:38:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gazoduc)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-a-cms/178701/1 "2009-11-09T19:38:54Z")
Hi list ! More often then not when talking about zena, I find people saying that “we don’t need no freakin’ CMS, Rails _is_ a CMS”. I posted an article on [zenadmin.org](http://zenadmin.org) with some reflections around this issue and why some people find it useful to build such tools for rails (adva-cms, radiant, zena): [http://bit.ly/2rJa6D](http://bit.ly/2rJa6D) Gaspard ---
**Author:** ![gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gazoduc)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-a-cms/178701/2 "2009-11-09T19:50:21Z")
Gaspard B. wrote: > More often then not when talking about zena, I find people saying that > “we don’t need no freakin’ CMS, Rails _is_ a CMS”. > Gaspard Rails is to a CMS as a truck is to a banana. ---
**Author:** ![gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gazoduc)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-a-cms/178701/3 "2009-11-09T20:28:40Z")
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Gaspard B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi list ! > > More often then not when talking about zena, I find people saying that > “we don’t need no freakin’ CMS, Rails _is_ a CMS”. > Oh come on! Seriously? > I posted an article on [zenadmin.org](http://zenadmin.org) with some reflections around this > issue and why some people find it useful to build such tools for rails > (adva-cms, radiant, zena): > > [http://bit.ly/2rJa6D](http://bit.ly/2rJa6D) > > ## Gaspard – Leonardo M… There’s no place like ~ ---
**Author:** ![gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gazoduc)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-a-cms/178701/4 "2009-11-09T21:26:37Z")
This isn’t the appropriate venue for your blogspam. -eric On Nov 9, 12:21 pm, Gaspard B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gazoduc)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-a-cms/178701/5 "2009-11-09T21:21:46Z")
Leonardo M. wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Gaspard B. > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Hi list ! > > > > More often then not when talking about zena, I find people saying that > > “we don’t need no freakin’ CMS, Rails _is_ a CMS”. > > Oh come on! Seriously? In fact, the complete argument is that Rails with generic plugins = CMS. But these arguments mostly date from the early ages of the CMS page on rails’ first wiki when people were discovering REST, pretty urls and scaffolding… > > I posted an article on [zenadmin.org](http://zenadmin.org) with some reflections around this > > issue and why some people find it useful to build such tools for rails > > (adva-cms, radiant, zena): > > > > [http://bit.ly/2rJa6D](http://bit.ly/2rJa6D) > > > > ## Gaspard > > – > Leonardo M… > There’s no place like ~ ---
**Author:** ![gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gazoduc)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-a-cms/178701/6 "2009-11-09T23:00:52Z")
On Nov 9, 1:50 pm, Ilan B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Gaspard B. wrote: > > > More often then not when talking about zena, I find people saying that > > “we don’t need no freakin’ CMS, Rails _is_ a CMS”. > > > Gaspard > > ## Rails is to a CMS as a truck is to a banana. > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. You cannot use a truck to build a banana. And I feel dirty for bumping this thread ☹ ---
**Author:** ![gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gazoduc)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-a-cms/178701/7 "2009-11-10T04:29:09Z")
pharrington wrote: > You cannot use a truck to build a banana. > > And I feel dirty for bumping this thread ☹ Ahhh, but you can take a banana to market with a truck… so to speak.