From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-10-09T10:24:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Content Managing System in Ruby

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On Oct 7, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Mathieu Blondel wrote:

>  > They exist.  They may not be publically released, but they exist.

ZenWeb - http://zenspider.com/ZSS/Products/ZenWeb/index.html

Long in existence.

> In fact, I would prefer to see public ones :)
>
>> Paul Vudmaska (paul, are you still lurking?) has a nice looking 
>> system that he created for a bunch of his clients.  It's done 
>> directly with mod_ruby/eruby without the benefit of any other 
>> framework.  That one is, or was, publically available at some 
>> version.  If Paul isn't listening, I'll see if I can find out what 
>> the state of that is and report back.
>
> I may end up to do a CMS for my site and in this case I would release 
> it publically.
>
> I think I wouldn't use big frameworks either.
>
> Some features I need would be :
> - XML based structures content

You really don't want this.  Really.

ZenWeb works with plain text files with simple markup, much easier to 
edit.

> - Good metadata system

ZenWeb has an awesome hierarchical metadata system.  Truly, truly 
awesome.  (Truly.)

> - Roles and rights (abouts users and files)

Since ZenWeb is based on files, you can control this at the FS level.

> - i18n

Tricky, but possible with the nifty renderers ZenWeb has.

> - workflows

Not built-in.

> - versionning

CVS.

> - groupware

What does this mean?

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