From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2009-12-08T02:31:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Wordpress Port

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On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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> Rick DeNatale
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>
And if you're looking for a Rails-based blog platform, there's Mephisto:
http://mephistoblog.com/

Wordpress is enormous. Porting would be non-trivial.

Jason

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