LocomotiveCMS

LocomotiveCMS is a simple but powerful CMS based on liquid templates and mongodb database. At my company (NoCoffee), we use it for our clients when they request a simple website.

If we have to give a couple of features to describe our application, there will be:

managing as many websites as you want with one application instance
nice looking UI (see http://www.locomotivecms.com for some screenshots)
flexible content types
content localization out of the box
playing smoothly with Heroku, Bushido and MongoHQ
inline editing (wip)
API

Strategy / Development status

We already developed a fully functional prototype in Rails 2.3.2 with both active record / mongomapper and it worked quite well. We are even using it for some client websites.
Now, our goal is to port our prototype to Rails 3 and migrate from mongomapper to mongoid. Besides, we put a lot of efforts to make it as robust as we can by writing better specs than we wrote for the prototype at first.

Gems

Here is a short list of main gems / technologies used in the application.

Ruby 2.0
Rails 3.2.14 (Rails 4.0 in the next months)
Mongoid 3.1.3 (with MongoDB 2.x)
Liquid
Devise
Carrierwave
Haml
Formtastic
Cells
Coffeescript / Backbone / SASS

Installation

See the installation documentation on the official website

Upgrading

We work on the procedure to upgrade from a previous version of the engine (below the 2.0.0)

Community

Get help or discuss locomotive CMS at the LocomotiveCMS Google group
Join us on IRC #locomotivecms at irc.freenode.net!
Follow us on twitter

Contributing to LocomotiveCMS

LocomotiveCMS is an open source project, we encourage contributions. If you have found a bug and want to contribute a fix, or have a new feature you would like to add, follow the steps below to get your patch into the project:

Install ruby and mongoDB
Clone the project git clone git@github.com:locomotivecms/engine.git
Setup a virtual host entry for test.example.com to point to localhost
Install PhantomJS (Required for the cucumber suite See: https://github.com/jonleighton/poltergeist)
Run the tests rake
Write your failing tests
Make the tests pass
Create a GitHub pull request

For new features (especially large ones) it is best to create a topic on the Google group first to make sure it fits into the goals of the project.

Team

Developers: Didier Lafforgue, Mario Visic, Jacques Crocker
Contributors: Dirk Kelly, Raphael Costa (Brazilian Portuguese translation), Bernd Hauser (German translation), Andrea Frigido (Italian translation), Enrique García (Spanish translation), Lars Smit (Dutch translation), PitOn (Russian translation), paulsponagl
UI Designer: Sacha Greif
IE maintainer: Alex Sanford

Support

Bernd Hauser from designhunger funded the following feature: has_one / has_many between content types.

Credits

Rodrigo Alvarez for his plugin named Congo which gave us a good starting point and for his availability for (very late) tech discussions.

Emmanuel Grard designed the awesome locomotive illustration in the old locomotivecms.com landing page.

Font Awesome for providing the best icons. Make the whole back-office Retina-ready.

Contact

Feel free to contact me at didier at nocoffee dot fr.

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