From: "Luis G. Gómez" <lgomez@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T03:46:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby CMS

Hi all,

In my opinion, and having worked mainly on web projects that require 
some sort of "CMS" there are certain "basic" features all CMSs should 
have and some that should be plugged in on demmand. For example the 
ability to manage online documents seems popular enough to be included 
by default (even if it is handled like any other plugin or module). We 
could have a "blog" module, a "subscription" module, etc... The main 
purpose of the modules is to allow for more complex functionality to be 
easily applied by the administrator and allow for custom modules that 
simply need to respect certain compatibility guidelines.

The CMSs I've done normally give my clients the ability to manage 
documents or what I'm thinking of changing to "Content Objects". Each 
object can be a module or simple content and can be part of another 
object. That way the CMS gives the user a lot of flexibility.