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It will take me some time to watch this. Anyone able to summarize right now why this thing is like Drupal? ("It's a CMS" is not enough. The word "CMS" has many
by mechanical_fish 18y ago
It will take me some time to watch this. Anyone able to summarize right now why this thing is like Drupal?
("It's a CMS" is not enough. The word "CMS" has many meanings. And Drupal is arguably a CMS, but it is a specific flavor of CMS. For example: Does BrowseCMS have a module system reminiscent of Drupal's?)
- clofresh 18y agoBrowseCMS itself doesn't seem to have a module system, but since it's Rails, you can use any of the existing Rails plugins out there.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoSo here's the thing: Rails plugins are for programmers. I'm no Rails expert, but I've never encountered a Rails plugin that was configurable without using Ruby. (Which is, of course, perfectly in line with Rails design goals and philosophy.) The majority of Drupal modules are designed to be used without writing a single line of PHP code. (This is not to say that Drupal developers don't end up writing PHP code anyway... or that this design philosophy doesn't often lead to unusable confusion, or that it doesn't entail some big compromises, of which the tendency to have code stored in the database is one of the most annoying. But I have seen quite impressive Drupal sites built by people who refuse to touch PHP. That's a big selling point.) So, no: This isn't Drupal. But we are getting there!