<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 May 2012 11:43, Sean O'Halpin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean.ohalpin@gmail.com" target="_blank">sean.ohalpin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
<br>
I'd be grateful for any opinions (with reasons) on what are the best<br>
(or worst) open source Ruby content management systems.<br>
<br>
My leaning is towards Radiant (<a href="http://radiantcms.org/" target="_blank">http://radiantcms.org/</a>). It's well<br>
documented, has an extensible architecture and seems well supported.<br>
My main concern is that it's running on Rails 2.3.14 (which makes me<br>
think there's bound to be a big makeover to Rails 3.x in the pipeline,<br>
hence instability, broken plugins, etc.).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For what it's worth, our very own <a href="http://lrug.org">lrug.org</a> is running on radiant, and only last year did I upgrade to a recent version (we were on 0.6.something I think, and now we're on 0.9.1, the latest release is 1.0.0). I've been pretty happy with it, but I'm not exactly using lots of features. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Depending on what you want to do with it later it may be hard to integrate with, as although it is built on rails, it's not really a rails app. Radiant is it's own beast and you want to learn how to integrate with it forgetting that it's got rails in there somewhere.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Refinery (<a href="http://refinerycms.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://refinerycms.com/</a>) also looks good but I haven't heard<br>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">so much about it. Anyone here used it?</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I looked at Refinery for a client project a year or so ago. It looked ok, but I felt it was geared towards a very specific sort of page & menu driven site. I suspect it's come on quite a bit since then. It's probably equivalent in functionality / quality to radiant, but as you say the community is there for radiant in a way that it doesn't seem to be for refinery.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope this is useful,</div><div><br></div><div>Muz</div></div>