What is a CMS?
A content management system or CMS is a computer program that allows a user to publish, edit and modifying of the content through a editor. CMS often used for websites & blogs to avoid the hand coding and provide easy to use interface so that anybody can manage the content without depending on a programmer.
Here, I want to specify one of the popular Ruby on Rails CMS – RefineryCMS. There are some other CMS available in Ruby On Rails like BrowserCMS, LocomotiveCMS, Radiant CMS, etc…
RefineryCMS is an open source content management system written in Ruby on Rails with jQuery used as the JavaScript library. It is perfect for creating custom content manageable websites. If you need to quickly create an informational site that can be easily edited, consider using a content management system.
Key features of RefineryCMS are:
- 100% free and open source
- Super simple and easy to use
- Slick, clean user interface
- Modular and extendable
- Design flexibility
- Multilingual
RefineryCMS is popular because of following reasons :
- Built with Ruby on Rails
- Refinery is the most user-friendly for a non-technical end-user
- Installing RefineryCMS is very easy
- Supports creating of custom engines
- There are tons of engines, plugins and extensions available
- Strong community for support
- Easier to integrate into existing rails project or the other way round
- Includes Devise as authentication
- Has a pretty admin control panel
See Also : How to create a form page in Refinery CMS app
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