Structure should create room
A useful content model describes meaning without dictating every visual decision. Editors should know what belongs in a field, while designers remain free to change the composition around it.
For Fieldwork, that means separating durable records from the public presentation. RailsPress owns the post, taxonomy, and media relationships. The host application decides how those ingredients become an archive, feature card, or reading page.
Strong defaults are a starting point, not a ceiling.
Our working rules
- Name fields for what they mean.
- Keep optional content genuinely optional.
- Exercise empty states before launch.
- Link demonstrations back to their documentation.
The result is deliberately ordinary Rails code: inspectable, replaceable, and easy to extend when the editorial model changes.
