<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">there is always good old fashioned CGI<div>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</div><div><br><div><div>On 12 Feb 2009, at 17:47, Sebastian Komianos wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p>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.</p><p>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 <a href="http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk">http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk</a> will definitely help. Think about a greek version of it).</p><p>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.</p><p>Last but not least, is rails the only way to take ruby to the web? (No actuall reason for asking, just curious)</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Sebastian</p> <div> <pre><a href="http://www.sebkom.me/">http://www.sebkom.me/</a>
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