# Rortlet, portlets on rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rortlet-portlets-on-rails/107957>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 27, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rortlet-portlets-on-rails/107957 "2007-06-27T20:58:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![gcnovus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/779978/32.png) [@gcnovus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gcnovus)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rortlet-portlets-on-rails/107957/1 "2007-06-27T20:58:44Z")

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I’ve started a new project to create a plugin for portlets in Rails.  
It’s at [http://www.assembla.com/space/rortlet](http://www.assembla.com/space/rortlet)

If anyone is interested, I’d love some help. Please email  
james@knowledgeincorporated if you want to help out.

My vision for the first round is a framework that does essentially  
what Blogspot does. I want to have some default page objects  
(Markdown/Textile box, last n entries of an RSS feed, etc), but also  
have it be very pluggable for other applications (Twitter feed, GMail,  
etc). Every portlet should have access control for all CRUD  
operations.

Since we don’t want to force a particular user/authorization scheme on  
users of the plugin, we need to break that out as much as possible.