From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-12-08T02:22:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Wordpress Port

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM, hjast <hjast89@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has there any been an effort to make a ruby Wordpress port? I am a
> rails and ruby guy, and now have to do a blog in Wordpress. PHP is an
> ugly langauge and I wish I could use ruby for extending and looking at
> the architecture. Since Wordpress is open source we could just
> straight port a lot of the code from wordpress as it is. Someone could
> even make a parser which makes php extensions or themes compatible.
>
> I guess in general, this is a question about the lack of CMS's in
> ruby. THe general comments usually are, why have a cms when we can
> make it in rails so much fast? I agree with the point that Rails is
> quite mature and robust to handle making any type of site very
> quickly. There is one problem, this is contingent on knowing Ruby on
> Rails. To help further Ruby's cause perhaps people should come to
> together to port a few proper CMS's or at least add some sort of
> compatibly.

Well there are some well-known Ruby CMSeseses.

Have you looked at Radiant CMS? http://radiantcms.org/
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