Rails Station

Content Management System Engine

Station is to Rails in Content Management System like Rails is to Ruby in Web Development.

Rails = Ruby + Web Development
Station = Rails + Content Management

Station provides your Rails application with a "CMS framework".
This means authentication, authorization, roles, permissions, categories, tags, etc… but from a very flexible scope.

Dependencies

Rails 2.3.4
RubyGems

mislav-will_paginate
ruby-openid (optional)
atom-tools (optional)
hpricot (optional)

Rails Plugins

attachment_fu
exception_notification (optional)

Installation

Plugins

You need attachment_fu for Logos and Attachments. Install this version for better stability:

script/plugin install git://github.com/atd/attachment_fu.git

Install station with:

script/plugin install -r stable git://github.com/atd/station.git

Install exception_notification plugin if you want to receive debugging emails from your application

script/plugin install git://github.com/rails/exception_notification.git

Gems

Run

rake gems:install

to install the required gem

You can install this aditional gems:

ruby-openid, for OpenID authentication support
atom-tools, for AtomPub support
hpricot, for HTML discovery

Documentation

See rdoc documentation for details

Blog

Find posts about Station development and Rails at Rails Station Blog

License

Contact

Antonio Tapiador (atapiador@dit.upm.es)