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mrbrdo
mrbrdo

Reputation: 8258

Rails 3 flexible CMS framework

There are some other similar questions here but they're fairly old when Rails 3 was still in beta.

I am looking for a CMS system for Rails 3. I need something with basic functionality (pages, SEO etc.) and good/easy extensibility. The most important feature other than extensibility that I want is a good WYSIWYG editor. I will be using it to build CMSs for clients and need something flexible that I can extend easily to fit their needs. Since HTML will be prepared by someone else, I need the option to use html.erb format or something similar.

Some that I've seen: - Refinery CMS - Radiant CMS (is this rails 3 compatible? not sure...) - Typus - BrowserCMS

So, what do you guys recommend and why?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2479

Answers (3)

retro
retro

Reputation: 3785

All you need is supported with Refinery CMS. Pages and SEO support is out of the box and you can easily extend it with Rails::Engine, where you are using same development workflow as in standard Rails3 application. There is also a CRUD engine generator, sou you can build your extensions very fast.

Your views are under app/views or vendor/engines/name/app/views and you can use erb for it.

You can start with reading guides. If you need help, you can join #refinerycms at Freenode irc servers or ask in google group.

Upvotes: 5

Enric Ribas
Enric Ribas

Reputation: 629

This is a fairly new one that I believe is being actively worked on.

Locomotive

http://www.locomotivecms.com/

Upvotes: 3

mrbrdo
mrbrdo

Reputation: 8258

For now, I tried all these, but I'm not too impressed with any:

  • Refinery CMS: could not set it up, bug, did workaround, new bug. maybe just unfortunate timing, but bad impression. will keep trying though

  • Radiant CMS: bugged out, maybe not rails 3 compatible. could not try it.

  • Typus: worked fine, but it's not so much as CMS as it is a admin interface... in this case i'm looking for a more full blown solution, but seems like a nice project, might use it for other stuff.

  • BrowserCMS: bug on generator. could not get it to work.

Kinda frustrating and disappointing, I wasn't expecting such problems with "big" rails projects. Obviously someone didn't do their tests right ^_^

Upvotes: 0

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