Presentation slides for Ruby CMS for Boise LocalMotion Ruby User Group

1. Ruby and/or Rails Content
Management Systems
Brian Loomis
@djdarkbeat

2. See this bridge? Pretend it’s a CMS. See that river? Pretend it’s onerous tasks.
a CMS is a Bridge
Spans the gap between
content and software
development.

3. Comfortable Mexican Sofa
❖ https://github.com/comfy/comfortable-mexican-sofa
❖ > Comfy Blog https://github.com/comfy/comfy-blog
❖ Mirrored Websites
❖ MultiSites, multilang
❖ CMS seeds speed content creation without admin
interaction.

4. FAE CMS
❖ https://faecms.com/
❖ Gem based
❖ Global search
❖ Change Tracker
❖ Cloning
❖ Auth / Devise integration

5. Locomotive CMS
❖ https://www.locomotivecms.com/
❖ MongoDB only.
❖ Now hosted (didn’t use to be)
❖ Uses Wagon CLI to manage

6. Spina CMS
❖ https://www.spinacms.com/
❖ Drag and drop content organization
❖ No Multiple Websites
❖ Great SEO tweaks.

7. Alchemy CMS
❖ https://alchemy-cms.com/about
❖ CMS Builder
❖ Lots of Effort
❖ Prevent content editors from editing layouts.
❖ Multi Domain

8. Refinery CMS
❖ https://www.refinerycms.com/
❖ Rails Engine (works w/Spree)
❖ Good for eCommerce.
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9. StoryTime
❖ https://github.com/CultivateLabs/storytime
❖ Pages, Posts, Snippets
❖ Clean minimalist design

10. Chameleon CMS
❖ http://camaleon.tuzitio.com/
❖ Modules
❖ Wordpress replacement
❖ Group by content and group by users.
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11. Radiant CMS
❖ http://radiantcms.org/
❖ Edit JS and CSS in admin.
❖ Create any content structure with no limits.
❖ Nested Sets

12. Browser CMS
❖ http://www.browsercms.org/
❖ Older, not sure if still supported or active.

14. –Captain Obvious
“Maybe we should have tried a couple different
ones before we started the project.”