Refinery CMS

An open source Ruby on Rails content management system for Rails 3.

Refinery also supports Rails 2.x using the Rails 2.x stable branch. More information at https://refinerycms.com

Wanna see Refinery for yourself? Try the demo

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 engines 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.

Requirements

Bundler
RMagick - Install docs or for Mac OS 10.5+ users this shell install script will be easier.

How to

Help and Documentation

Tutorial Site
Google Group Discussion
IRC Channel
GitHub repository
Developer/API documentation
Documentation about: Pages, Images, Files, Inquiries, Settings, Dashboard, Authentication & Users, Extending with Engines.

Features

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.

Inquiries

Collect inquiries from a contact form.
Manage your inquiries and be notified when new ones come in.
Checks new inquiries for spam.

Settings

Manage the behaviour of Refinery
Easily integrate with Google Analytics

Dashboard

Get an overview of what has been updated recently and see recent inquiries.

Authentication & Users

Manage who can access Refinery.
Control which engines each user has access to.
Uses the popular authlogic.

...Want more? Extend with Engines

Extend Refinery easily by running the Refinery engine generator

rails generate refinery_engine

to get help on how to use that. Or read the full documentation on writing engines for Refinery

Popular Engines

Blog - A simple blogging engine that supports posts, categories and comments (with moderation support if you choose to enable it)
Portfolio - manage groups of images like an image gallery.
News - post and manage news items.
Theming - turn your views, stylesheets, javascripts and images into bundled themes that are reusable and interchangeable.

Full engine list here

Example Site Showcase

List here (add your link when you're done)

Sjoerd/linguistic_portal