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List of Rails CMS software
Rails CMS alternatives
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I've updated this as of 6/14/11. Looking at only active projects
Active projects:
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BrowserCMS
repo: http://github.com/browsermedia/browsercms
site: http://www.browsercms.org/
"Humane Content Management for Rails"
gem-based dedicated CMS
Radiant
repo: http://github.com/radiant/radiant
site: http://radiantcms.org/
demo: http://radiantcms.org/demo/ (admin/radiant)
"Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams."
Engine-based CMS, mature project
Refinery
repo: http://refinerycms.org/
site: http://refinerycms.com/
demo: http://demo.refinerycms.com/session/new (demo/demo)
"a simple, easy to use, well presented content manager for small businesses."
Dedicated CMS built on top of Rails
Skyline - not updated that much
repo: http://github.com/digitpaint/skyline
site: http://www.skylinecms.nl/
"extremely flexible and expandable open source content management system"
Dedicated CMS built on top of Rails
Typus
repo: http://intraducibles.com/projects/typus
site: http://github.com/fesplugas/typus
demo: http://typus.heroku.com/ (user@intraducibles.com / columbia)
"Trusted users editing structured content"
Not really a CMS, more of a way to spin up an administrative backend via generators
Webiva
repo: http://www.github.com/cykod/Webiva
site: http://www.webiva.org/
demo: http://demo.webiva.net/
"A content management system for people who love to build websites"
Dedicated CMS built on top of Rails
Zena
repo: http://github.com/zena/zena
site: http://zenadmin.org/en
"CMS (content managment system) with a focus on usability, ease of customization and web 2.0 goodness"
Dedicated CMS built on top of Rails
Related:
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Blog engines
Enki http://www.enkiblog.com
Mephisto http://mephistoblog.com/
Typo http://wiki.github.com/fdv/typo/
Static page generators
Jekyll http://wiki.github.com/mojombo/jekyll
Nanoc http://nanoc.stoneship.org/
StaticMatic http://staticmatic.rubyforge.org/
Webby http://webby.rubyforge.org/
Wikis
Redmine http://www.redmine.org/ (also project management)
Wagn http://www.wagn.org/
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