# Is there a ruby on rails framework/app that would be a good starting point for these requirements?

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**Created:** [September 20, 2009, 9:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-ruby-on-rails-framework-app-that-would-be-a-good-starting-point-for-these-requirements/175809 "2009-09-20T09:31:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 9:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-ruby-on-rails-framework-app-that-would-be-a-good-starting-point-for-these-requirements/175809/1 "2009-09-20T09:31:20Z")

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Hi,

Just wondering whether there is an existing open source Ruby on Rails  
app that would be a good starting point for doing this:

- want a backend web application/service that has an API to allow a  
desktop client application to programmatically upload complete web  
pages (HTML & images that the HTML links to) to be hosted
- the web application API would have to support (a) create account for  
new user, (b) upload / modify / delete web pages for specified user
- part of creating the account for user would be to set them up with a  
username/password, as the content needs to be private (user will need  
username/password to access)
- so each of the accounts (setup with a user password) are all  
separate with no linkages - it’s just a service that will allow  
multiple users to have their own HTML/images hosted, and the point  
being that they won’t manually set this up themselves, but rather the  
clientside application will have the smarts to do this, therefore  
requires the back-end web application/service to provide the API

Any existing open source apps sound like they might fit these  
requirements, RoR blog app, or RoR Wiki app or something? (but it  
needs the programmatic APIs)

I guess the fallback for me would be to develop a website from the  
ground up to do this (e.g. Ruby on Rails), but it would be nice to  
have something as a starting point.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-ruby-on-rails-framework-app-that-would-be-a-good-starting-point-for-these-requirements/175809/2 "2009-09-21T02:45:34Z")

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Sounds like a cms app for which there was a recent post on the list  
for.

> Radiant is probably the best known. AdvaCMS looks quite promising, but  
> seems a bit immature at the moment. There’s also BrowserCMS

One that I like is Wagn: [http://www.wagn.org/wagn/Introduction](http://www.wagn.org/wagn/Introduction)

It has a unique card like approach to cms.

Does sound like a project you might be able to build yourself - I  
don’t know if any of the cms’s mentioned will let you serve uploaded  
html pages. But you might be able to extend one to do it.

On Sep 20, 3:29 am, Greg H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)