The Ruby on Rails CMS Dilemma - aaronlongwell.com

Ruby on Rails is an excellent framework for building web applications. Perhaps the best. But it's not currently very well suited to what I call web sites. The difference is simple. In a web site, the unique business value comes from the content creators (authors, bloggers, photographers, etc). In a web application, the business value comes directly from the programmers. Twitter, Google, Basecamp a

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"I believe the solution lies in finding a common "language" for an application to communicate with its plugins, and for those plugins to communicate with one another".