NEWBIE: document management system w/ruby

ruby-talk
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hi, new to ruby but excited about its possibilities. specifically,
i'm looking to implement a simple web-based document management system
for my company's intranet with ruby on rails. i tried hacking an
existing php-based system (http://owl.sourceforge.net) but I can see it
becoming a hulking bohemoth pretty quickly.

anyone have any experience with this particular use of ruby or where a
good starting place would be? what's the standard (if any) ruby
database implementation in a web context? i'm not a newbie to
programming but i've very little experience with web programming stuff
like cgi, authentication, cookies and the like.

any insights would be appreciated...

spoonyG
:[spoonyG@movemail.com]:

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I would recommend Hieraki (http://www.hieraki.org/\), which provides
what it seems that you are asking. It's designed in Ruby on Rails
(Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.), and can be set up though Apache, but
also has a built-in WEBrick server (which is pure Ruby).

--Patrick

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:36:28 +0900, spoonyG <spoonyG@movemail.com> wrote:

hi, new to ruby but excited about its possibilities. specifically,
i'm looking to implement a simple web-based document management system
for my company's intranet with ruby on rails. i tried hacking an
existing php-based system (http://owl.sourceforge.net) but I can see it
becoming a hulking bohemoth pretty quickly.

anyone have any experience with this particular use of ruby or where a
good starting place would be? what's the standard (if any) ruby
database implementation in a web context? i'm not a newbie to
programming but i've very little experience with web programming stuff
like cgi, authentication, cookies and the like.

any insights would be appreciated...

spoonyG
:[spoonyG@movemail.com]:

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* Patrick Spence <patrick.spence@gmail.com> [0158 03:58]:

I would recommend Hieraki (http://www.hieraki.org/\), which provides
what it seems that you are asking. It's designed in Ruby on Rails
(Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.),

Is'nt it Instiki-based?
(Which could be an issue with huge sites and memory).

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No, it's Rails-based and uses a relational DB for storage (unlike Instiki, which uses Madeleine), so there shouldn't be any memory issues to talk about. But Instiki is a close relative, since it uses an early version of Action Pack.

//samuel

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Is'nt it Instiki-based?
(Which could be an issue with huge sites and memory).

--
'Oh, wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder.'
    -- Bender
Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns

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