I ask because I'm learning to be a better rails developer, and I have a WordPress site that has outgrown its theme, and rather than buy a framework I decided to build one of my own on rails...then I found this.
I'm going to try it out, at least on a test domain, but thought I'd ask the HN community for any advice/feedback.
This will boil down to more about what's the right tool for the right job, and you've not given enough details to answer that question. A custom theme is DEFINITELY not a reason to switch.
I would suggest that Refinery is great for very basic needs, but the ecosystem is nothing even close to what WordPress has to offer.
Refinery is well written - and great code to review if you're learning rails as described. You can find many more rails apps from which to learn too.
You'll need to search HN for CMS && Rails - just a day or two ago I saw something related to a new rails CMS but didn't follow it. In your exploratory phase, it might be worth reviewing - as I went to their home page and read briefly about the solution and it "sounded" good.
EDIT: Here's the one I read about a few days ago to save you the search: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189943
Hey nhangen, as I mentioned in that link, I would be happy to pass along any questions or comments that you might have about the CMS to the developer!
Mostly need a better way to handle media, show schedules, and build a better design template. Also plan on adding some community related features.
What I see from your site is certainly within the capabilities of wordpress. It's just hard for me to justify leaving such a capable system because of a theme issue when you have so much more functionality that is proven.
Just my opinion. FYI - I chose Refinery for the simplicity of a simple site that I needed. I think it's great - but not a match to WP, nor do I think it was meant for that.
I don't like PHP, so I'd prefer not to build one from scratch.