<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I tend not to like ActiveAdmin, but it seems like it could be a good fit for what you need.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.activeadmin.info">http://www.activeadmin.info</a></div><div><br><div><div>On 11 Sep 2013, at 10:31, Ian Kynnersley <<a href="mailto:iankynnersley@gmail.com">iankynnersley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for all the useful responses. I'll definitely look into Active Model Serializer. <div><br></div><div>Most of these replies rely on me creating a bespoke model structure in code which is what I'm trying to avoid. Parse and Helios look interesting but don't give me the admin interface that I need to allow totally non-techie users to be able to manage the content themselves.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What I'm after would be a library that I can install in my app (or something hosted like Parse / Helios) that instantly gives me my CMS. Something a bit like Radiant maybe. I would then want to create my model structure within that CMS such that admin users could add, remove and update information easily. However, unlike a normal CMS which would render the output as a website with some templates to alter the look and feel, I want it to provide a JSON API. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The reason for all of this is that ownership of this app will be handed over to a different company and they are (rightly) nervous about taking on a completely bespoke application rather than a customised version of an off-the-shelf product.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Perhaps I am looking for something that doesn't exist so your thoughts are all very useful.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again</div><div>Ian</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Tejas Dinkar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tejasdinkar@gmail.com" target="_blank">tejasdinkar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="im"><div><div>On Sep-11-2013, at 7:02 AM, Nick Novitski <<a href="mailto:nicknovitski@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicknovitski@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">
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There's also<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers" target="_blank">https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers</a> </div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div>+1 on Active Model Serializer.<div>
<br></div><div>Benefits:</div><div>1) Easily testable, and OO</div><div>2) Has access to current_user (or any other controller method via `scope'). This makes it possible for you to serialize based on who has requested the object</div>
<div>3) Works seamlessly with respond_with </div><div>4) If you have the same relation object multiple times on your object (say user can be created_by, updated_by, etc…) then you have a way to just `embed' the user once.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, +1 on rails-api gem as well :-)</div><div><div>
--<br>Tejas Dinkar<br><a href="http://www.nilenso.com/" target="_blank">http://www.nilenso.com</a><br>Nilenso Software (formerly C42 Engineering)<br>
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