I am going to write a ContentManagementSystem for RubyOnRails for administration of static pages.
Which features do you prefer to appear in this CMS?
What do you think might be helpful for daily work?
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Just a good read on Rails & CMS
The Ruby on Rails CMS dillema
something like an drag & drop Template builder.
Userstory :
Create new Page
Take some boxes from the sidebar and put it on an empty page
click the box
add content , pictures etc. to this box
save & publish
.. yeah i want something like this :-) inspired by Wordpress Widget Management.
Look around for existing Rails CMSs likes Radiant, BrowserCms,
Also study Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla in php, they seem to be doing pretty great as CMS's and are awesome at that.
A Django-like in feature but Rails-ish in nature Admin interface. That is the talk of the town these days..
Did you try: http://shane-hippo.blogspot.com/2009/08/hor-experiment-2.html
This experiment shows how you can set up your own application within 15 minutes, with Hippo on Rails.
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So I want to play with the active_admin gem. Two basic pieces I need is pages and images. I could setup a system myself, but is there any gems or anything out there that make setting this up easy? Ideally the pages would have ability to have custom slugs, nested pages, custom fields etc. And maybe ability to add images to the pages.
Yes yes maybe I should just go with a system like refinery. But I'm curious if there something lighter out there for what I need.
My suggestion: if you want the "lightweight" way, just go to implement your own CMS.
In my experience, for rails application, rebuilt is much easier and faster than refactoring/reuse, if your requirement is kinda of complex.
Maybe you should have a look at active_cms, which is still in active development, but already useful for basic functionality. You can find it here: https://github.com/geisters/active_cms
I'm pretty new to rails, and i'm trying to build a web template editor in rails where users can come in and create their websites without having any programming knowledge.
something similar to:
http://imcreator.com/
muse.adobe.com
www.wix.com
www.squarespace.com
I'm wondering if there are any gems or plugins
I was also told that i should look for a control library? any ideas?
There are a number of CMS kits like Refinery, Radiant, or you can use something like Comfortable Mexican Sofa which is maintained by an associate of mine.
Building a CMS isn't especially tricky, but getting a good general-purpose one built can be fussy.
Would a CMS work for this? Like RefineryCMS.com?
I'm going to be doing this too - but will be taking another approach. More of a 'showcase/showroom' direction where the templates are pre-made but they can upload artwork and change content.
Anyhow - good luck!
FAQs seem to be a pretty commonly needed feature in a web application..
but it seems like there are no gems or plugins available for Rails.
Can you recommend a gem or plugin which provides FAQs to a Rails app?
Obviously you could make a simple FAQ very quickly with Rails, but there is much
more functionality that can be added: votes, search, categories, roles,
comments, markup, embedded links, tags, ... just to name a few.
Seems like people are re-inventing the wheel a lot for FAQs
I just published a gem for it.
https://github.com/railscash/how_to
Hope that helps, Its in development phase but we are using it actively. Your comments/feedback will be highly appreciated
I think either using BrowserCMS (http://browsercms.org) or RefineryCMS (http://refinerycms.com/) fits the bill for when you need more generic content pages. I prefer to just use a generic CMS instead of creating a gem/plugin for FAQS as you'll have other pages that could easily be thrown into a CMS engine as well. Saves developer time from having to update mostly static HTML pages.
Absolutely - Check out https://oraguide.com - Everything is streamlined / hosted in the cloud. It runs directly on the page as a floating div.
I have a customer that wants to build their own questionnaires. Something like WuFoo (www.wufoo.com) but more secure and contained within the app.
I've looked at Smerf (http://github.com/springbok/smerf) which provides the yaml-to-form conversion, but I'd like something the user can use to create their own forms.
I would look at using active_scaffold. The main version has not been updated for Rails 3, but a fork at the location below has. I think it would work well for your purpose, you just need a way to grab the data and feed it in. Here is a demo of what it looks like when it is running:
https://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold
Here is a demo at the top of the page:
http://demo.activescaffold.com/roles
You could always embed Google Forms. Might be easier than reinventing the wheel. Unless you have some specific use case this doesn't cover?
If you are not adverse to going the Javascript route the then you might consider one of the many framework plugins like the JQuery Form Builder. From a usability perspective it seems to me that any good solution is going to involve some Javascript. There should be no reason why this approach wouldn't integrate well into a Rails backend
You might want to check out this one. Dynamic Forms
I too am looking for something very similar. What solution did you come up with?
What editor can you suggest to integrate with the backend of the web app I'm currently developing? I want to allow my trusted users to add articles that would be visible on the
frontend. It should have some kind of markup language (to make basic customisation - lists, bold...) and if possible also the option to upload images.
look into restful_authentication (authentication), RedCloth (textile markup language), Hobo (admin interface), and paperclip (file uploads/attachments). You can piece together something with those.
If the editors of your site are not so technical, you might want to look into a Javascript markup editor instead, such as TinyMCE for editing articles - it looks similar to the gmail editor or the one here on S/O (bold / italics / etc), and you don't have to use textile markup.
You can also try routing to, say, admin/modelname, and create administrative controllers there. Hobo might be a way of doing it, but it is usually done manually.
I suggest using RedCloth for adding a textile style mark-up language to your articles.
I also suggest Paperclip for uploading & attaching images to your articles.
Do you mean "editor" in the sense of a component you present to end users in the browser, embedded in the Web page?
Stackoverflow uses the WMD editor. It's good. I'm using it in a current project. It took me about 20 minutes to read the docs and set it up. It's fast, lightweight, works in most browsers, and is easy to use both for you and the end users.
It uses the "Markdown" markup language.
Try Radiant CMS for a complete solution.