Eribium: the RoR-AJAX Content Management System

The Author of the Eribium CMS Is 16 Year Old Alex Maccaw

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Monday, April 3, 2006; 03:05 AM

A new content management system, built with Ruby on Rails and popular JavaScript libraries, has been declared alpha and is now available for download at http://www.eribium.org.  It uses programming languages, typically not associated with CMSs; but this is not the only unusual thing about Eribium.  The show-stealer is the fact that a 16 year old with little programming experience was able to use Ruby on Rails and create a working CMS in a relatively short time.

The dedicated webpage offers a working demo of the Eribium, and even at this early stage of development it works well and it feels well, too.  The demo includes tagging capabilities, various presentation templates, syndication, spell checker, and a myriad of features one would expect to see in a simple CMS or blogging platform.

The alpha version archive is 1.3 MB.  It includes instructions for installation.  When complete, Eribium will be released under MIT license.

 A collage of Eribium screenshots

Requirements:

• Ruby -v of 1.8.2 (25-05-2004) or higher.  Ruby 1.8.3 will not work.
• Rails 1.1.
• A database.  Eribium supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
• Ruby drivers for your database.
• For best performance, you should have a web server running either
• Apache or Lighttpd along with FastCGI, although these aren't strictly required--you can use Ruby's built-in web server for low-volume testing.
• Feedtools (gem install feedtools)
•  Bluecloth, Redcloth and/or Rubypants is recommended (gem install bluecloth)
• Rubyzip (gem install rubyzip)

Eribium’s Features:

• Completely Unobtrusive Javascript.
• Liquid View, works with pretty much any screen resolution.
• Ajax ‘quick’ editing.
• File Management and multiple zip download.
• Information Overlay.
• Tags & Tag Clouds.
• Theme system, built on Typo’s (so you can use the same templates).
• RSS and Atom Syndication.
• User Management.
• Supports Markdown (Bluecloth) and Textile (Redcloth).
• Web Stats and Hit Counter.
• Ajax Previews & Instant page and tag Search.
• Search.
• Google Sitemap generation.
• View/Download Logs.
• Api
• Pdf Generation
• Export into yalm, xml and excel. Inport into yalm.
• Spell Checker