[Rails] Rails CMS best fit

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

On 17 oct, 16:12, masta Blasta wrote:
Kad Kerforn wrote in post #1080098:








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:https://github.com/browsermedia/browsercms
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.https://github.com/locomotivecms

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On Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:31:17 AM UTC-4, Erwin wrote:

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" (https://github.com/radar/forem)
'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can be superseded within the declared 'user' class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

On Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:31:17 AM UTC-4, Erwin wrote:

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" (https://github.com/radar/forem)
'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

On 20 oct, 20:02, GBH wrote:
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

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 posthttps://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread...

On 10/21/2012 10:36 AM, Erwin wrote:
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

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