Rails CMS best fit

Rails
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I already have a project with multiple subdomains under development
( Rails 3.2.8 , MySQL, Haml , Devise , Cancan )

www.myproject.com is the main site
many subdomains will be created : sub1.myproject.com,
sub2.myproject.com, sub3.myproject.com, …

We need now to add CMS functionalities to the main domain and to each
subdomain, ( different layouts , different sets of pages )

What could be currently the best CMS engine choice ? ( at least the
most adapted to this goal…)
Radiant , Alchemy Refinery or even Locomotive ( with this one, I know
we should switch to Mongoid ORM, but why not …) or any other
one …

thanks for feedback

2

Seems that Alchemy CMS engine mounted at subdomain level could do the
job… it’s a pure “content” management app… managing only content
will test it

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Kad K. wrote in post #1080098:

I already have a project with multiple subdomains under development
( Rails 3.2.8 , MySQL, Haml , Devise , Cancan )

www.myproject.com is the main site
many subdomains will be created : sub1.myproject.com,
sub2.myproject.com, sub3.myproject.com, …

We need now to add CMS functionalities to the main domain and to each
subdomain, ( different layouts , different sets of pages )

What could be currently the best CMS engine choice ? ( at least the
most adapted to this goal…)
Radiant , Alchemy Refinery or even Locomotive ( with this one, I know
we should switch to Mongoid ORM, but why not …) or any other
one …

thanks for feedback

I’ve just started building a site with BrowserCMS. It’s fairly well
featured, and allows for easy integration of outside controllers and
models. Documentation is good - not great - however the developers are
really responsive in the google group.
here is the project: GitHub - browsermedia/browsercms: BrowserCMS: Humane Content Management for Rails
One thing about browserCMS is that it uses it’s own authentication
methods so you might have issues using Devise.

I also tried locomotive but i found it lacking in features and
documentation. Also the switch to mongoid has a learning curve to it if
you’re not already familiar. Locomotive has potential, but it is still
early in development. Locomotive · GitHub

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Thanks for your feedback…

I also looked into Locomotive, good ( I know Mongoid) but the project
needs MySQL…
After looking at other existing Rails CMS : Alchemy, Radiant,
Refinery, Comfortable Mexican Sofa ( C.M.S. !) and also browserCMS, my
feeling is that none of them are actually true good engines for our
project … rather than describing what I mean by that , better giving
an example of a good one : “forem” ( GitHub - rubysherpas/forem: The best Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine. Ever. )

‘forem’ brings a complete forum app as an engine to our existing rails
web apps:

  • can be mounted at root or subdomain level,
  • reuse our Devise authentication module, forem initialize with the
    declared ‘user’ class, and ‘current_user’ helper
  • forem internal authorization is based on CanCan, and permissions
    can be superseded within the declared ‘user’ class

said that, we are currently looking into Alchemy code ( good ‘content’
management ) to see how we could adapt it (to the ‘forem’ way)
regarding authentication and authorization ( I know that the new
Refinery aims at using authentication/authorization engines… but
Refinery cannot be mounted at subdomain level which is mandatory in
our project

thanks again

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Hey Erwin

  • ComfortableMexicanSofa is mounted as a catch-all on the root path as a
    default. I’ll make it mountable soon, but it works just the same right
    now.
  • There’s concept of ‘sites’ so you can serve completely different
    content
    based on the subdomain. But technically it can take care of everything
    that
    doesn’t hit your application routes.
  • Comes with simple httpauth that you can replace with Devise or
    whatever
    else you want. See wiki for example.
  • Doesn’t have user permissions though (it has no concept of users).
    This
    is something that is possible to hack in as part of the authorization.

Let me know if you have any questions. I might be able to help.

Oleg

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Hi Oleg , I am working on it right now … I like it being Rails-
minded, so easier to hack , I also like it because it doesn’t have any
concept of users…

I ma trying to move the ‘cms-admin’ module into my backoffice as a

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Something is not loading right. When rails loads models it assumes that
the folder that is nesting them is a namespace. So /app/models/foo/bar
can define Foo::Bar
If you’re manually moving things around try making model look like this:

module Cms
class Site

instead of current

class Cms::Site

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Thanks… I’ll test it
in parallel I am also testing the standard ‘cms-admin’ ( adapting my
backoffice admin to cms-admin) vs including the cms-admin module into
my backoffice, as my current concern is to stick to my backoffice
design ( layout/css) being used for additional features

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been cut off…
I am trying to move the ‘cms-admin’ part into my backoffice as a lib
module and using the cms-content for site rendering…
I have an issue using the Cms::Site model , it works at app level
( getting Cms::Site.all = [] in the console
but when called from the backoffice named space, :
LoadError (Expected /Users/…/app/models/cms/site.rb to define
Site):

see my post
https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/80b8f8033e6b1474?hl=fr

10

Functionality wise, I’ve had really easy time integrating these CMS
libraries.

https://www.filepicker.io/products/libraries/

Let’s you grab content through urls.

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[SOLVED] I guess…
It seems I had a wrong route in my cms_admin namespace

  namespace :cms_admin, :except => :show do
     match '/', to: 'base#jump'
       resources :sites do

is the correct one…

but I tried to bypass the base controller and I wrote
namespace :cms_admin, :except => :show do
match ‘/’, to: ‘sites#index’
resources :sites do

this raised the error : asking for Site being defined …

Le mardi 23 octobre 2012 09:57:45 UTC+2, Erwin a crit :

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My issue seems to be related to Rails railties :
action_controller/metal/params_wrapper.rb#_default_wrap_model

quoted :

Determine the wrapper model from the controller’s name. By

convention,
# this could be done by trying to find the defined model that has
the
# same singularize name as the controller. For example,
+UsersController+
# will try to find if the +User+ model exists.
#
# This method also does namespace lookup.
Foo::Bar::UsersController
will
# try to find Foo::Bar::User, Foo::User and finally User.

So, I ma trying to access Cms::Site model from my own admin
controller: Backoffice::CmsAdmin::SitesController
Then it’s looking for Backoffice::CmsAdmin::Sites, CmsAdmin::Sites,
Sites

but even if I use the controller Cms
namespace, Backoffice::Cms::SitesController
and the model defined : class Cms::Site < ActiveRecord::Base ( I
also tried module Cms and class Site )
I get the same error :
LoadError in Backoffice::Cms::SitesController#index

…/app/models/cms/site.rb to define Site

weird … in the console Cms::Site.all gives [] , so the model is
correctly loaded…

Le dimanche 21 octobre 2012 18:31:54 UTC+2, GBH a crit :