# 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: ![Carlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/carlo/32/79036_2.png) [@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")

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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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