3 CMS solutions for Ruby on Rails

If you’re looking for a CMS built in Ruby on Rails, here’s 3 solutions you might enjoy (in no particular order):

Adva-CMS

Adva-cms is an open source cms plattform based on Ruby on Rails and Rails Engines.

Radiant CMS

Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.

Browser CMS

Browser CMS is a new-comer on the Rails community but promise to stir things up. Take a look at their video presentation.

And here’s 3 screenshots of each CMS in action:



7 Responses (Add Your Comment)

  1. Which one do you recommend?

  2. Browser CMS is the most impressive and with plenty of potential but it’s not production ready yet, as of this date.

    Adva-CMS seems very good and supports internacionalization so I would problably give it a try.

    RadiantCMS is good for more simple sites, I think, there’s some extensions that help improve some of the missing features you’ll probably need.

  3. I have taked a look today at all the tree, and I agree. But browser cms has a nifty way to layout edition (i don’t figure out how to do it in radiant) and a html editor (I suposse radiand has a similar one if you search extensions)

    Radiant seems impressive as well, its has many extensions: http://wiki.github.com/radiant/radiant#extensions

    But i think they all lack a powerfull rich text editor like the one in moodle, for example.

    Thanks 4 the post

  4. @Lucas: in adva-cms, you can use a rich ext editor (FCKeditor) for all content.

  5. There’s another option: zena CMS

    It’s moving very fast right now but supports many advanced features already (multi-lingual, groups based access rights, custom object classes, custom attributes, image resizing, live preview, most powerful templating language ever, etc).

    We have been working on this CMS since … 2005, constantly testing new ideas. We are currently working hard to smooth everything for our jump out of beta this autumn.

    Stay tuned !

  6. Another option is to “marry” Rails with a PHP-based CMS – use the PHP-CMS for the CMS front end and Rails as the back-end – and use Rails application parallel with the CMS generated pages! see: http://www.silverwirt.de/using-the-silverstripe-cms-within-rails/

  7. How about RefineryCMS.

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