Radiant CMS presentation from RuPy 2007 conference

1. Radiant CMS
smart simplicity
Krzysztof Szafranek
www.szafranek.net
Ruby & Python Conference, 14-15 April 2007, Poznań

2. Hi, I am...
not a programmer

3. Hi, I am...
UI designer and developer
... interested in web standards
... usability
... accessibility

4. simplicity

5. Radiant CMS

6. Installation
$ gem install radiant
$ radiant .
$ vim config/database.yml
$ rake production db:bootstrap
$ ruby script/server -e production

8. Is it a blog Is it a portal
system?
engine?

9. More than a blog engine
Doesn't enforce site structure
But can be used for blogging

10. Not an enterprise system
No forums, polls, personalization,
workflows, WYSIWYG and 7924651
other features
Our Content Management System helps to
professionally create seven-habits-conforming
methods of empowerment and proactively
coordinate timely products in order to solve
business problems

11. ... but is elegant and simple to use

12. File system-like hierarchy

13. Friendy URLs
http://rupy.pl/speakers/guido-van-rossum

14. Page-centric

15. Page parts

16. Layout

17. Layout definition

18. Using layout

19. Special pages (behaviors)

20. Basic workflow

21. Snippets

22. Tags

23. Help system

24. Available tags
<r:breadcrumb />
<r:parent />
<r:content />
<r:children />

25. Available tags
<r:children:each>
<r:child>...</r:child>
</r:children:each>
<r:if_parent>...</r:if_parent>

26. Custom tags
module ExpiryTags
include Radiant::Taggable
tag quot;expiresquot; do |tag|
expires = Date.parse(tag.attr[quot;onquot;])
tag.expand if Date.today <= expires
end
end

27. Custom tags
<r:expires on=quot;2007-04-30quot;>
Nothing too see in May.
</r:expires>

28. Plugins
Search (based on Ferret)
Mailer
Assets manager
Blog comments

29. Plugins
... and more

30. Things to consider

31. Who is it for?
Tech-savvy people: designers,
developers
... with no time for reinventing the
wheel

32. What is it for?
Blogs, portfolios, product sites
Ie. content-oriented sites

33. Pros...
Active community
REALLY simple interface
Rails under the hood
Built-in caching

34. Cons...
Probably not the best choice for
your shiny new Web 2.0 app

35. ruby-lang.org

36. Give it a try!
radiantcms.org

37. Thank you!
Krzysztof Szafranek
szafranek.net