[Ruby] Best RoR CMS?

[Scott Porad]

I recommend Comatose CMS.  I did an evaluation just a little while ago and
prefered it to Radiant.  

I think Radiant is an excellent app, but Comatose is much lighter weight.

In my view, you have to build your site within the Radiant Rails
application, i.e. your site is part of *their* app.

Comatose, on the other hand, is a plug-in, so you build your site as a Rails
app and install the plug-in, i.e. the CMS is part of *your* app.

Personally, if I'm building an app, then I want to own it because I'm the
one supporting it, not the other way around, so I chose to use Comatose.
It's worked very nicely for me to date.

Scott

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Scott Porad
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-----Original Message-----
From: ruby-bounces at zenspider.com [mailto:ruby-bounces at zenspider.com] On
Behalf Of Benjamin Curtis
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:26 AM
To: Seattle Ruby Brigade!
Subject: Re: [Ruby] Best RoR CMS?

I have used Radiant for a client site, http:// 
beyondwineandcheese.com/, which is mostly static content, and it  
worked quite well for that.

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Benjamin Curtis
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http://www.bencurtis.com/ - Personal blog



On Nov 7, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Scott Patten wrote:

> I'm using mephisto <http://mephistoblog.com> for spatten
> design<http://spattendesign.com>,
> and I'm quite happy with it.  Mephisto is set-up out of the box to  
> be a
> blogging engine, but with a few tweaks it makes quite a nice CMS.   
> If you go
> with Mephisto, let me know if you want any help with that set-up.   
> I've been
> meaning to blog about how to use Mephisto as a CMS, so that would  
> probably
> spur me to actually write it.
>
> I've taken a look in to Radiant, but never used it.  It looks quite  
> nice as
> well.
>
> Scott Patten
>
> On 11/7/07, Ben <heliostatic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm building a simple site for a friend, and I'd like to use Rails.
>> Rather than writing a cms from scratch, though, I was hoping to use
>> something already out there.
>>
>> I've looked at Radiant, and I think it will work for me, but I  
>> figured
>> I'd ask first. The site is more static content than blog, but my  
>> friend
>> (and potentially a handful of others) need to be able to easily
>> update/add content.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
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