Tobias Fors

UPDATE: Bad link snuck through. Sorry.

I found a link to gotapi.com on Jon Tirséns blog. Check it out if you dabble in Rails as I do from time to time. Sweet!

In the past, I have worked some with web content management systems. Both as a developer, and as a user. The state of the art can be summed up like this: web content management systems are typically crap. They seem to be written by developers for developers, not for fast and efficient publishing.

At Citerus, we still use a seemingly powerful but painfully unusable and inefficient CMS, for historical reasons. I have been looking around for an alternative for some time, but most of what I’ve tried so far suffers from the same issues: complicated user interface design.

I am now evaluating the Ruby on Rails-based Radiant. So far, things look good. Though it seems to lack well-written documentation, its simplicity makes it easy to get started with. It seems to have come about when the developers of the new ruby-lang site discovered that they, too, could not find a sensible content management system.

Får du ont i huvudet av o-eleganta lösningar? Det får jag. Därför gillar jag Ruby. Och Ruby on Rails, och ja, det är precis så bra som alla säger, verkar det som hittills i varje fall.

Plus, varför är inte alla tutorials lika underbara som den här, om Ruby? (Tips: om du följer denna tutorial, och har svårt att få IRB att funka med {,\ och andra roliga tecken, tänk på att du även måste sätta HOME-variabeln till din hemkatalog, där du lagt .inputrc).

Ruby on Rails verkar vara ett intressant initiativ. Pröva på tekniken med hjälp av Curt Hibbs snabba introduktion “Rolling with Ruby on Rails”.