We spent a lot of time moving from PHP to Rails for our online community framework and we have created a much more maintainable system, however in getting stuck in Rails 1.0 I feel we have sort of missed the REST boat.
Looking at all the widget plugins in Ning it seems to emphasize a different direction from the one we are still hacking away at in Prometheus (the codebase that underlies disCourse -
http://discourse.ics.hawaii.edu).
I'm trying to work out a pathway that will allow us to create interesting widgets to help support social processes, although what I'm wondering at present is whether Ning can support file uploads and filing of multiple wiki pages within groups (something our Prometheus framework focuses on).
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