Refinery CMS
An open source Ruby on Rails content management system for Rails 3.
More information at http://refinerycms.com
Requirements
- Bundler
- ImageMagick
- Mac OS X users should use homebrew's
brew install imagemagick
or the magick-installer.
- Mac OS X users should use homebrew's
How to
Getting Started
If you're new to Refinery, start with this guide:
What's it good at?
Refinery is great for sites where the client needs to be able to update their website themselves without being bombarded with anything too complicated.
Unlike other content managers, Refinery is truly aimed at the end user making it easy for them to pick up and make changes themselves.
For developers
- Easily customise the look to suit the business.
- Extend with custom extensions to do anything Refinery doesn't do out of the box.
- Sticks to "the Rails way" as much as possible; we don't force you to learn new templating languages.
- Uses jQuery for fast and concise Javascript.
Wanna see Refinery for yourself? Try the demo
Help and Documentation
- Getting Started
- Guides
- Google Group Discussion
- IRC Channel
- GitHub repository
- Developer/API documentation
- Twitter Account
Features
Pages
- Easily edit and manage pages with a WYSIWYG visual editor.
- Manage your site's structure.
Images & Files
- Easily upload and insert images.
- Upload and link to resources such as PDF documents.
- Uses the popular Dragonfly.
- Supports storage on Amazon S3.
Dashboard
- Get an overview of what has been updated recently and see recent inquiries.
Authentication & Users
- Manage who can access Refinery.
- Control which extensions each user has access to.
- Uses the popular Devise.
Custom Extensions
Extend Refinery easily by running the Refinery extension generator. For help run the command without any options:
rails generate refinery:engine
Popular Extensions
- Blog - A simple blogging extension that supports posts, categories and comments with optional moderation support.
- Portfolio - manage groups of images like an image gallery.
- News - post and manage news items.
- Inquiries - simple contact form that notifies you and customer when an inquiry is made.
Example Site Showcase
List here (add your link when you're done)
License
Refinery is released under the MIT license. See the license.md file for details.
Credits
Many of the icons used in Refinery CMS are from the wonderful Silk library by Mark James.