# Looking for Ruby-based CMS recommendations as a compliment to Discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-ruby-based-cms-recommendations-as-a-compliment-to-discourse/78930
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [January 24, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-ruby-based-cms-recommendations-as-a-compliment-to-discourse/78930 "2018-01-24T23:38:21Z")
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### Author:  [@Vocino](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vocino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-ruby-based-cms-recommendations-as-a-compliment-to-discourse/78930/1 "2018-01-24T23:38:21Z")
We’re looking to build out some other parts of our site and transform what is currently a landing page into a more robust and full-featured destination. I would love to stay within the Ruby world and even better would be a tested Docker setup.
To reiterate:
- Ruby-based
- Docker preferred
- Extensible to play nice with Discourse
Right now I’m looking at the leader from back when I was up on these sort of things, [Refinery CMS](http://www.refinerycms.com/). I’m thinking there may be better options out there or something that has already see a use case I could look to.
Any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@Ja008](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ja008)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-ruby-based-cms-recommendations-as-a-compliment-to-discourse/78930/2 "2018-01-25T10:52:50Z")
I didnot find any good ruby CMS. Why not just use wordpress?
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### Author:  [@Vocino](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vocino)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-ruby-based-cms-recommendations-as-a-compliment-to-discourse/78930/3 "2018-01-25T18:15:55Z")
Wordpress is an option, yes. It just felt pretty bloated for my needs.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-ruby-based-cms-recommendations-as-a-compliment-to-discourse/78930/4 "2018-01-25T19:07:23Z")
> [@Vocino](#):
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> Wordpress is an option, yes. It just felt pretty bloated for my needs.
True enough, but like it or not, it’s the Discourse of CMSs. 🙂
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### Author:  [@TerminalAddict](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TerminalAddict)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-ruby-based-cms-recommendations-as-a-compliment-to-discourse/78930/5 "2018-01-25T19:43:34Z")
maybe [https://ghost.org/](https://ghost.org/) ?
example: [https://blog.codinghorror.com/](https://blog.codinghorror.com/)
I keep looking at it 😕
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### Author:  [@Carlo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Carlo)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-ruby-based-cms-recommendations-as-a-compliment-to-discourse/78930/6 "2018-01-26T08:41:01Z")
Have you heard about [Modx](https://modx.com) ? It is a super flexible CMF ( php/mysql based ). You can take any html template, place some tag, and your up and running.
You can easily integrate Discourse with Embedding system with a chunk:
> [@Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-via-javascript/31963):
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> Discourse has the ability to embed the comments from a topic in a remote site using a Javascript API that creates an IFRAME. For an example of this in action, check out [Coding Horror’s blog](http://blog.codinghorror.com/welcome-to-the-internet-of-compromised-things/#discourse-comments). The blog is run via [Ghost](https://ghost.org/) but the comments are embedded from his [Discourse forum](http://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/welcome-to-the-internet-of-compromised-things/3550). One important thing to note with this setup is that users have to navigate to your forum to post replies. This is intentional, as we feel that the posting interface on a Discourse forum is currently much richer than what we …
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> True enough, but like it or not, it’s the Discourse of CMSs. 🙂
Hum… I have to disagree 😛
Yes it is super popular ( can’t argue with that), but in terms of security and performance… I’ll pass.
I can’t tell you how many of my clients got their website hack because they’ve downloaded free plugins (poorly coded, or including some backdoor ) 😭😭😭
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-ruby-based-cms-recommendations-as-a-compliment-to-discourse/78930/7 "2018-01-26T15:01:13Z")
I hate wordpress as much as the next guy, but you can’t hold it responsible for people installing stupid plugins or not keeping it updated.
It turns out that maintaining a server in the internet is work.
I think that security is a higher priority for the discourse team than Wordpress. Further, Discourse is still hard enough to install (and plugins even harder) that fewer people who have no business deciding what plugins to install are able to do so.