[LRUG] Building a CMS from scratch...

[Angus Donaldson]

there is always good old fashioned CGI
But your project is somewhat reinventing the wheel, i think typo does  
most of that but that said It is a great way to learn IMHO

On 12 Feb 2009, at 17:47, Sebastian Komianos wrote:

> As some of you already know I am a newbie with ruby. I only know the  
> basics and have no experience with rails at all.
>
> I have an idea for a project to work from June and on and I would  
> love the community to be up sometime after the summer. The idea is a  
> resource center for current or prospective greek university  
> students, which means I need a wiki (full of information about  
> universities, their departments, etc), a forum and a blog (which  
> will be used just for the first page, for news, articles, etc). (To  
> get a better idea of what I want to achieve, a look at http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk 
>  will definitely help. Think about a greek version of it).
>
> Now, I can simply go for Wordpress+MediaWiki+vBulletin/SMF and that  
> would make perfect sense. However, I 'd love to challenge my self  
> and try to create a CMS with all these bundled in (or at least, a  
> CMS just to replace WP). I am not going to ask how easy this is, I  
> don't want something easy. My two questions are: a) Is it  
> achievable, having in mind I am a begginer? b) Is it worth to try or  
> do you reckon that I should spend my time differently? As I see it,  
> it's a good way to learn programming in ruby but I might be totally  
> wrong.
>
> Last but not least, is rails the only way to take ruby to the web?  
> (No actuall reason for asking, just curious)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sebastian
>
> http://www.sebkom.me/
> http://blog.sebkom.me/
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