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I always wondered why rails didn't produce a competitor to WordPress. It just hasn't excelled in content management.
I have an open source real estate website builder called propertywebbuilder which I am working on reviving and even with the help of Claude code the content management part of it is proving to be the most painful.
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andrei_says_ • yesterday at 9:28 PM
One of the reasons is that it’s too easy to build your own CMS using Rails.
There were a bunch. Radiant CMS, Refinery, Locomotive, and others.
Three problems (1) PHP is deployed all over cheap shared hosting providers (2) no one who uses a CMS cares about the backend (3) Wordpress has massive ecosystem