Hi all,
I'm glad to announce first public release of MuraveyWeb -- Ruby CMS
built on top of the Ruby On Rails. This is a result of my work for
more than 4 month and I already use it in production.
# ruby code
alias :MW :MuraveyWeb
Main idea of MuraveyWeb is separation between content management and
it's views. With MW you can create and manage your content and then
using MW API and Ruby On Rails you can build views to display it the
way you like.
Features
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* Hierarchycal content structure stored in database
* Supported content types: textile and HTML articles, images, files
and user-defined key=>value documents.
* WYSIWYG HTML editor
* Image transformations: dynamic resizing, thumbnail generation and
rotate tool
* API to use all this from Ruby On Rails applications
* JavaScript powered content browser to manage your documents and
folders
* Administrator interface works with Gecko browsers(Firefox, Mozilla)
and MSIE(was tested in 6.0)
* Simple ACL to restrict actions to the group of users
License
As I'm not very experienced in this question, I was looking for the
license that will comfort everyone. For some reason I took MIT. If
you have problems with it -- tell me.
Status
I've decided to mark this version of MW 0.1.0, to show that I have
many work and features in mind for it. But it's by no means unstable
or alpha-quality.
Demonstration
Note: you can play with content inside the interface, but do so with
care - don't change password for admin user or change mapping's
sensitive data such as symbols. All changes will be reflected in demo
application.
* Administrator interface demo: http://tools.muravey.net
login: admin
password: admin
Note: demo application is just a simple example of what can be done,
but it doesn't show full MW capabilities -- I had no time to develop
such an excessive sample right now.
* Application demo: http://demo.muravey.net
* Demo application sources: http://muravey-tools.rubyforge.org
* MW install, setup and API docs:
http://tools.muravey.net/doc/index.html
Random inline example
This is a view code in action 'news' (Ruby On Rails):
<% @news.iterate do |category, *| %>
<% for news in category %>
<p><b><%= news.title %></b>, in <%= category.name %>
<font color="gray"><%= news.render_date %></font></p>
<p><%= mw :render => :text, :document => news %></p>
<hr />
<% end %>
<% end %>
Download
It'd be great if I could release that as a gem, but right now that's
kinda difficult because Rails has no support for that yet. So here
are plain old gz's, bz2's and zip's:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=9
There's no need to install anything after you unpacked the source.
Rename directory as you like it and follow instructions in
doc/mw/index.html or http://tools.muravey.net/docs/index.html
If you want, you can get MW from CVS:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@rubyforge.org:/var/cvs/muravey-tools login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@rubyforge.org:/var/cvs/muravey-tools co \
MuraveyWeb
Future plans
* Content-based ACLs
* Search API
* Work-Flow support
* Smart pagination
Thanks
I'd like to say thank you to Alexander Kellett and Paul Marsh for
their feedback with usefull comments and questions. Paul Marsh even
sent me a patch that helped me to upgrade to Rails 0.10. Thanks guys!
I'd like to thank David Heinemeier Hansson for super-productive web
framework that we all were waiting for.
And also, I want to thank all of you who gave me positive feedback on
my pre-announcement.
Communication
If you have any problems with MW or you have idea how I can improve it
please contact me, I will be glad to help.
There's #MuraveyWeb IRC channel on irc.freenode.net
And forums on the RubyForge: http://rubyforge.org/forum/?group_id=9
Bugs
You can report any bugs or misbehaviors here:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=9
--
sdmitry -=- Dmitry V. Sabanin
http://muravey.net
