From: "Paulo Sérgio" <psm041@...>
Date: 2005-03-14T19:24:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] MuraveyWeb -- Ruby CMS (with demo)

Hi, good work! I was with the same idea, build an CMS on top of Rails ...
I'm an (ex)plone user, and learning Rails right now ... if i can help ;-)

Cheers.

-- 
Paulo S Medeiros - B.Sc Student - DCC/COPPE/UFRJ - Brazil 


Dmitry V. Sabanin wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm glad to announce first public release of MuraveyWeb -- Ruby CMS 
>built on top of the Ruby On Rails. This is a result of my work for 
>more than 4 month and I already use it in production.
>
># ruby code
>alias :MW :MuraveyWeb
>
>Main idea of MuraveyWeb is separation between content management and 
>it's views. With MW you can create and manage your content and then 
>using MW API and Ruby On Rails you can build views to display it the 
>way you like. 
>
>Features
>======
> * Hierarchycal content structure stored in database
> * Supported content types: textile and HTML articles, images, files
>    and user-defined key=>value documents.
> * WYSIWYG HTML editor
> * Image transformations: dynamic resizing, thumbnail generation and
>    rotate tool
> * API to use all this from Ruby On Rails applications
> * JavaScript powered content browser to manage your documents and
>    folders
> * Administrator interface works with Gecko browsers(Firefox, Mozilla)
>    and MSIE(was tested in 6.0)
> * Simple ACL to restrict actions to the group of users
>
>License
>======
>As I'm not very experienced in this question, I was looking for the 
>license that will comfort everyone. For some reason I took MIT. If 
>you have problems with it -- tell me.
>
>Status
>=====
>I've decided to mark this version of MW 0.1.0, to show that I have
>many work and features in mind for it. But it's by no means unstable
>or alpha-quality.
>
>Demonstration
>===========
>Note: you can play with content inside the interface, but do so with
>care - don't change password for admin user or change mapping's
>sensitive data such as symbols. All changes will be reflected in demo
>application.
>
>* Administrator interface demo: http://tools.muravey.net
>   login: admin
>   password: admin
>
>Note: demo application is just a simple example of what can be done,
>but it doesn't show full MW capabilities -- I had no time to develop
>such an excessive sample right now.
>
>* Application demo: http://demo.muravey.net
>* Demo application sources: http://muravey-tools.rubyforge.org
>* MW install, setup and API docs: 
>http://tools.muravey.net/doc/index.html 
>
>Random inline example
>==================
>This is a view code in action 'news' (Ruby On Rails):
>
><% @news.iterate do |category, *| %> 
>  <% for news in category %>
>    <p><b><%= news.title %></b>, in <%= category.name %> 
> <font color="gray"><%= news.render_date %></font></p>
>    <p><%= mw :render => :text, :document => news %></p>
>    <hr />
>  <% end %>
><% end %>
>
>Download
>========
>It'd be great if I could release that as a gem, but right now that's 
>kinda difficult because Rails has no support for that yet. So here 
>are plain old gz's, bz2's and zip's:
>http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=9
>
>There's no need to install anything after you unpacked the source.
>Rename directory as you like it and follow instructions in 
>doc/mw/index.html or http://tools.muravey.net/docs/index.html
>
>If you want, you can get MW from CVS:
>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@rubyforge.org:/var/cvs/muravey-tools login
>cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@rubyforge.org:/var/cvs/muravey-tools co \
> MuraveyWeb
>
>Future plans
>=========
>* Content-based ACLs
>* Search API
>* Work-Flow support
>* Smart pagination
>
>Thanks
>======
>I'd like to say thank you to Alexander Kellett and Paul Marsh for 
>their feedback with usefull comments and questions. Paul Marsh even 
>sent me a patch that helped me to upgrade to Rails 0.10. Thanks guys!
>I'd like to thank David Heinemeier Hansson for super-productive web 
>framework that we all were waiting for.
>And also, I want to thank all of you who gave me positive feedback on 
>my pre-announcement.
>
>Communication
>============
>If you have any problems with MW or you have idea how I can improve it 
>please contact me, I will be glad to help.
>There's #MuraveyWeb IRC channel on irc.freenode.net
>And forums on the RubyForge: http://rubyforge.org/forum/?group_id=9
>
>Bugs
>====
>You can report any bugs or misbehaviors here: 
>http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=9
>
>  
>