An open source Ruby on Rails content management system for small business.
For more screenshots, example sites & high level information: http://refinerycms.com
Refinery is great for small business 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.
- Allows you to get a small business site completed ridiculously quickly
- Easily Theme and customise the look to suit the business
- Extend with custom plugins 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
Refinery's gem requirements are:
- acts_as_indexed = 0.6.3
- authlogic = 2.1.5
- friendly_id = 3.0.6
- rails = 2.3.8
- rmagick ~> 2.12.0
- truncate_html = 0.3.2
- will_paginate = 2.3.14
- RMagick - Install docs or for Mac OS 10.5+ users this shell install script will be easier.
- Tutorial Site
- Google Group Discussion
- Developer/API documentation
- GitHub repository
- Developer video - 26 mins
- IRC Channel
If you're using Heroku you will want to put
Refinery.s3_backend = true
in your config/environments/production.rb file to make Refinery store files uploaded on Amazon S3.
Simply run the command:
rake refinery:update
and the up-to-date core files will be copied from the latest gem into your project.
You can update by running these commands:
git remote add refinerycms git://github.com/resolve/refinerycms.git
git pull refinerycms master
This will pull in all of the updated files in the project and may result in some merge conflicts which you will need to resolve.
- Easily edit and manage pages with a WYSIWYG visual editor
- Manage you site's structure
- Easily upload and insert images
- Upload and link to resources such as PDF documents
- Uses the popular attachment_fu Rails plugin
- Supports storage on Amazon S3
- Collect inquiries from a contact form
- Manage your inquiries and be notified when new ones come in
- Checks new inquiries for spam
- Manage the behaviour of Refinery
- Easily integrate with Google Analytics
- Get an overview of what has been updated recently
- Manage who can access Refinery
- Control which plugins each user has access to
- Uses the popular authlogic authentication Rails plugin
- Customise Refinery to look exactly how you want
- The Rails Way: use regular Rails erb views, no templating languages here!
...Want more? Extend with Plugins
Extend Refinery easily by running the Refinery generator
ruby script/generate refinery
to get help on how to use that. Or read the full documentation on writing plugins for Refinery
At your application root run:
rake refinery:test_all
Refinery is released under the MIT license and is copyright (c) 2005-2010 Resolve Digital Ltd.