railfrogOpen source content management systems are all over the internet with a majority of these pages in PHP with Perl and Java on some and a tiny bit in Rails. There is a continuing debate over the power of Rails and PHP, with php being the one adapted early by most of the web developers, rails was indeed left on the sidelines, picking up areas that PHP deemed too have a small market and thus less profitable. Mephisto for example is described as one of the less known blog engines that integrates some CMS concepts has a surprisingly powerful templating system with an aggressive caching scheme that other platforms lack or suck at.
Being used by only a small fraction of the web’s giants, it has managed to remains a driving force as one of the open-sourced web and Mephisto, which is set to get an upgrade from the current 0.8.2 to a 0.9 release is loaded with more powerful tools for the web developers who prefer it over their other brethren. Built-in features include ATOM Feed capability. customizable templating systems, CMS features such as sections and pages that can be applied to blogs and last but not least, an independent layout facility that allows complete and total customization of the page making it more easy to use.