Simple & Elegant – The Rails Way
With Saral our goal is to do for content what Rails has done for the data.
Accordingly Saral is heavily influenced by the ideas and pilosophy behind Rails framework.
The core principles driving Saral’s product development are:
- DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)
- Convention or Configuration
- Separation of concerns
- Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
- Do one thing but do it right
- Don’t be afraid of saying NO
With Saral we have consciously avoided repeating features and capabilities that are already availalbe with other products. For example, we decided early on that we are not going spend our energies in providing tools (such as templates, layouts, etc.) for creating web pages using the content within Saral. We strongly believe that “presentation” of the content is not a concern of content management system. With increasing popularity of CSS and WEB 2.0, the presentation of the content is really a concern of the UI/UX experts and not the cotent authors, editors and publishers.
Similarly, we have kept the number of features in Saral to a critical set that can satisfy the need for 80% of the users. We will not even attempt to address the need for rest of the 20%.
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