News On Rails (nor)

<h1>News On Rails (nor)</h1>
<strong>News publishing system, built on <a
href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails (RoR)</a>.</strong>

<p>The core future of this system will be the possibility to putt a
new
article or news in a unlimited number of groups. A specified number of
groups with the highest priority will get a link under to a page with
news of this group. To get an impression, visit:
<a href="http://sos-rasisme.no/">http://sos-rasisme.no/</a>. This page are driven by a php/MySql
application, that is supposed to be replaced by this new RoR
application. This CMS is supposed to be highly customizable, with a
focus on publishing of news an other texts.
<br>
Besides a core point is actually that it uses RoR who are the
definitely fastest development tool for web-applications.
</p>

<h2>Why a new news publishing system?</h2>
<p>I've written an php/mysql application for <a
href="http://sos-rasisme.no/">SOS Racism Norway</a> for
serving our articles and an ingress and link for news about racism
from online news pages. For every news or article we have a links to a
category page (we can have about 6 links for each I think). I think
that is the mane feature that I have missed from other
solutions. Because of this, I had to make something my self.
</p>
<h2>How todays PHP application works</h2>
<p>The admins of the page have an admin page, for publishing/
unpublishing, deleting, setting priority etc. When they will submit an
new story, they get an html form page where they fill out headline
(which (news) media they got the ingress from),  link to the whole
article, the checkboxes for 5 specific categories, if the news shall
show up on the frontpage, 2 select-lists for categorys the
article scold be in. Then the ingress and (if it's a article by us,
the rest of the body). I haven't found any other aplication that
satisfies our needs.</p>

<h2>The limits of todays solution</h2>
<p>As times have gone, the needs have grown (and my time to develop
the
needed functionality have not). Beside -- the whole system lacs of a
missing group system, and on the top of it, new default settings in
php makes it necessary with a lot of rework of the code.
</p>

<h2>The solution</h2>
<p>I read about <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails</a>, and I found out that I instead of
fixing the old application, I will make a new one on Ruby on Rails
(ror), since it's faster, and I don't really like PHP anymore. I like
OO programming, and Ruby is of course the natural choice.
<br>
I'm also planning to make this application more generic, so also other
than SOS Racism can use it.</p>

<h2>Feature list</h2>
<ul>
  <li>Possible to put articles inn unlimited number of groups</li>
  <li>Groups can be in other groups</li>
  <li>Local groups of the organization, can have their own pages. News
  they are submitting shows up in an overview page for the
  administrators of the central pages (we can call them "bureaucrats",
  as a sign of they're strong power)</li>
  <li>The bureaucrats can easily publish news from local groups on the
  central pages</li>
  <li>The "emperor" account has absolute power</li>
  <li>Bureaucrats can do everything except deleting other bureaucrat
  accounts, and the emperor account </li>
  <li>Access to pages are determined of group membership (to access
  pages about "refugees" you have to be in the "refugees" group, to
  access the pages of the local group "Haugesund" you have to be in
  the "hagesunds" group)</li>
  <li>Administrators can add news to the groups they are member
  of. They can also add and suspend other administrators of their groups</li>
  <li>An administrator can be in an unlimited number of groups</li
</ul>
<h2>Developers wanted!</h2>
<p>I also will welcome other developer, to make this a better
application
than I can make by my own. I must also note, that current PHP
application we are using, are the only bigger application I've ever
made.
</p>