Re: Web CMS

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Brandon H. Byars
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>  I've been tasked with making a CMS recommendation for a fairly
>  high-traffic website, or possibly multiple websites. The problem, of
>  course, is that I know absolutely nothing about CMS systems :)
>
>  So, most CMS systems that I'm aware of seem to want to control both
>  content management _and_ content delivery. The delivery part needs to
>  be separate -- there will be at least one Rails front end, and the
>  view templates will contain container elements that we expect to fill
>  by calling out to a CMS system. It'd make it really nice if the CMS
>  system would publish content to the filesystem and let us determine
>  where that content goes, making it transparent to the Rails app. I'm
>  not even sure what the correct term for this style of CMS is (if it
>  has one), which would help my Googling.

To be honest, it sounds more like you're talking about a web-based
equivalent of frontpage or dream-weaver, that lets you save the final
page to the drive - I'm not familiar with any.  The closest I can
think of is using a CMS that publishes in RSS/XML as well as in HTML,
and teaching the Rails app to read from that somehow - but that sounds
ugly even as I type it.

Why not go with a rails CMS entire instead of going for what sounds
like a Frankenstein combination?

-- 
John Fiala