From: Rob Biedenharn Date: 2009-12-08T03:41:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Wordpress Port On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Jason Roelofs wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Rick DeNatale >wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM, hjast 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/ >> -- >> Rick DeNatale >> >> Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale >> WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale >> >> > 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 No, It sounds like hjast wants to check out phuby on phails. The video from RubyConf2009 should be up soon -- the session you need to see is: 21-Nov-09 15:05 "Worst. Ideas. Ever." Aaron Patterson and Ryan Davis Really, if I tries to tell you much more about it, the effect would be ruined. For now, you'd have to settle for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWKjS6Vufw -Rob Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com