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if you're not completely starting from scratch (as you say, you've done some tutorials) then go for it - you could have it fleshed out in a couple of hours.

the beauty of it is there are several existing cms available for you to dissect if you're up against the wall:

Radiant CMS
Rubricks - CMS on Rails
Railfrog - CMS Ridin’ on Rails / Ruby on Rails CMS

more for inspiration for solutions to particular problems than anything else - nothing stopping you hacking radiantcms to do what you want... though it's probably faster and easier to build your own

ideally invest in a couple of books:

Agile Web Development with Rails—Second Edition
Rails Recipes

the pdf's are like $20 - better for searching too

there are plugins for just about every functionality you'll require for a cms

there's a plethora of helpful people on the mailing list & irc.freenode.net#rubyonrails if you're banging your head - it's certainly the most helpful and non-judgemental community i've been fortunate to be a part of

one caveat - file uploads. rails is single threaded so uploads are blocking; there are however solutions to this, the best being merb - which is essentially threaded rails without the cruft (uses the same style of coding so it's not a paradigm jump); it's new, docs aren't comprehensive, there's less of the magic of rails so you'll have to think a bit, but i managed to pick it up enough in a couple of hours to build a little tumblelogging app in a few minutes so it's not difficult (if you have some rails knowledge; most issues i had were with getting existing rails plugins to work which wouldn't be an issue just for uploads)

you'll also have to think about deployment options, which is a topic in itself - there are providers, depends on your budget; if it's bottom end you'll have to roll your own.

hth

edit: and a merb tutorial

04-09-2007, 10:17	#2 (permalink)
proc355 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Glasvegas Posts: 865	if you're not completely starting from scratch (as you say, you've done some tutorials) then go for it - you could have it fleshed out in a couple of hours. the beauty of it is there are several existing cms available for you to dissect if you're up against the wall: Radiant CMS Rubricks - CMS on Rails Railfrog - CMS Ridin’ on Rails / Ruby on Rails CMS more for inspiration for solutions to particular problems than anything else - nothing stopping you hacking radiantcms to do what you want... though it's probably faster and easier to build your own ideally invest in a couple of books: Agile Web Development with Rails—Second Edition Rails Recipes the pdf's are like $20 - better for searching too there are plugins for just about every functionality you'll require for a cms there's a plethora of helpful people on the mailing list & irc.freenode.net#rubyonrails if you're banging your head - it's certainly the most helpful and non-judgemental community i've been fortunate to be a part of one caveat - file uploads. rails is single threaded so uploads are blocking; there are however solutions to this, the best being merb - which is essentially threaded rails without the cruft (uses the same style of coding so it's not a paradigm jump); it's new, docs aren't comprehensive, there's less of the magic of rails so you'll have to think a bit, but i managed to pick it up enough in a couple of hours to build a little tumblelogging app in a few minutes so it's not difficult (if you have some rails knowledge; most issues i had were with getting existing rails plugins to work which wouldn't be an issue just for uploads) you'll also have to think about deployment options, which is a topic in itself - there are providers, depends on your budget; if it's bottom end you'll have to roll your own. hth edit: and a merb tutorial __________________ meh. Last edited by proc355 : 04-09-2007 at 13:13.