# New CMS: AdminPages. uses sortable tree to arrange pages **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 26, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-cms-adminpages-uses-sortable-tree-to-arrange-pages/73870 "2006-02-26T19:27:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-cms-adminpages-uses-sortable-tree-to-arrange-pages/73870/1 "2006-02-26T19:27:57Z")
Hi all, I spent the last three days on a half-serious attempt at creating a simple, minimal CMS system on rails. check it out at [http://adminpages.flowdev.de](http://adminpages.flowdev.de) What it can do: manage pages in a sortable tree Add custom page elements Three page elements ready: Raw HTML, WYSIWYG editor, Rails render\_component interface Sort page elements with drag&drop Choose page layout choose page element layout page caching nice URLs What it can’t (yet) do: Any form of access/rights management (apart from login) Configuration is now in code, no central way to set available page elements etc Tree sorting only works when no page is edited (JavaScript bugs) If you want to play around with the code, get it here: [http://adminpages.flowdev.de/adminpages.tar.gz](http://adminpages.flowdev.de/adminpages.tar.gz) If some of you show interest, I can put it on rubyforge. Oh yeah, BSD license (or the rails license anyway, I forgot) Cheers, Martin ---
**Author:** ![martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-cms-adminpages-uses-sortable-tree-to-arrange-pages/73870/2 "2006-02-27T01:23:04Z")
Martin wrote: > Hi all, > I spent the last three days on a half-serious attempt at creating a > simple, minimal CMS system on rails. > > check it out at [http://adminpages.flowdev.de](http://adminpages.flowdev.de) > > What it can do: > manage pages in a sortable tree > Add custom page elements > Three page elements ready: Raw HTML, WYSIWYG editor, Rails > render\_component interface > Sort page elements with drag&drop > Choose page layout > choose page element layout > page caching > nice URLs Hey, that’s awesome! I’m gonna try to install it, that’s just what I was looking for ---
**Author:** ![martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 11:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-cms-adminpages-uses-sortable-tree-to-arrange-pages/73870/3 "2006-02-27T11:12:21Z")
Martin wrote: > Hi all, > I spent the last three days on a half-serious attempt at creating a > simple, minimal CMS system on rails. > > check it out at [http://adminpages.flowdev.de](http://adminpages.flowdev.de) I saw that you use the admin engine. Any chance of putting your stuff in an engine? ---
**Author:** ![martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-cms-adminpages-uses-sortable-tree-to-arrange-pages/73870/4 "2006-02-27T13:13:14Z")
Cool stuff! One feature that would be really sweet is a page template kind of thing… The page template could work like an ‘layout file’ where you specify where objects goes. Each object should have a type, like image, wysiwyg, raw-html, container and so on just like today buy instead of just have them in a list you connects them to different parts of the page. (page templates specifies with parts are available on this page) Container type holds a list of objects just like each page does today in your cms. Example: ## Template 1 |(1) | | (2)| | (3) | | --- | Object (1): Image (on edit becomes an image select type of thing- Object (2): Html Object (3): Container (can hold many objects) ## Template 2 |(1) | | (2) | | (3) (4) | | --- | Object (1): Image Object (2): wysiwyg Object (3): Container Object (4): Container And when you create or edit one of your pages you choose what kind of template this page should render and you can then connect your objects to different parts of the page. Don’t know if explained my dream features good enough but i did some ascii drawings at least 😉 All i wanted to say was nice work, buy my head got spinning… – Mathias Stjernstrom ---
**Author:** ![martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-cms-adminpages-uses-sortable-tree-to-arrange-pages/73870/5 "2006-02-27T13:41:02Z")
Mathias Stjernström wrote: > Cool stuff! > > One feature that would be really sweet is a page template kind of > thing… Mathias, that was something I planned, too. You have several sortable lists, representing columns on the final page. In the admin page, you can drag the page elements between the different columns. I just don’t know how to design the admin interface. Putting several columns beside each other would result in a page about 2000 pixels wide. Putting them under each other would result in loads of scrolling. Hmm…I will think of something. Stefan: I guess you mean the LoginEngine. I don’t know if putting this into an engine makes sense, because to use it for an actual page, you will have to rewrite many parts, or at least add new page elements. I don’t know enough about engines to decide yet.