Existing Ruby on Rails Open Source CMS-Like systems

Question

I'm looking to build a new project with Rails and I'm looking for a Ruby on Rails (as I know the framework) CMS or project that does mainly the following (so that I don't have to reinvent the wheel):

• Giving user the ability to make submissions that include text and links to videos/pictures.
• Users can vote stories up or down and flag it.
• Users can comment on stories.

This seems pretty standard to me, so I thought some other projects might have already done that. I hope you can recommend me something you know, giving preference to good documentation/code comments for me to expand the project.

Answer 1

It sounds like you're trying to write reddit.

This is the kind of thing that rails excels at, why not take a look at this?

http://ideasonrails.blogspot.com/2006/06/rewriting-reddit-in-rails-in-less-than.html

Answer 2

Check out the Lovdbyless project by Less. It should gave you a nice start on most of that functionality.

Answer 3

I think you are looking for something more like the following

http://radiantcms.org/

http://github.com/railfrog

http://wiki.github.com/fdv/typo/

Answer 4

Another option if you are looking for a conventional Web Content Management system (WCM) is BrowserCMS (http://browsercms.org). The specific voting/commenting functionality might require building your own modules but the core CMS framework supports them.