An open source Ruby on Rails content management system for Rails 3.

Refinery also supports Rails 2.x using the Rails 2.x stable branch. More information at http://refinerycms.com

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Refinery is great for sites where the client needs to be able to update their website themselves without being bombarded with anything too complicated.

Unlike other content managers, Refinery is truly aimed at the end user making it easy for them to pick up and make changes themselves.

• Easily customise the look to suit the business.
• Extend with custom engines to do anything Refinery doesn't do out of the box.
• Sticks to "the Rails way" as much as possible; we don't force you to learn new templating languages.
• Uses jQuery for fast and concise Javascript.

• Bundler
• RMagick - Install docs or for Mac OS 10.5+ users this shell install script will be easier.

• Install Refinery
• Update Refinery to the latest version
• Install Refinery on Heroku
• Run the Refinery test suite

• Tutorial Site
• Google Group Discussion
• IRC Channel
• GitHub repository
• Developer/API documentation

• Easily edit and manage pages with a WYSIWYG visual editor.
• Manage you site's structure.

• Easily upload and insert images.
• Upload and link to resources such as PDF documents.
• Uses the popular Dragonfly.
• Supports storage on Amazon S3.

• Collect inquiries from a contact form.
• Manage your inquiries and be notified when new ones come in.
• Checks new inquiries for spam.

• Manage the behaviour of Refinery
• Easily integrate with Google Analytics

• Get an overview of what has been updated recently and see recent inquiries.

• Manage who can access Refinery.
• Control which engines each user has access to.
• Uses the popular authlogic.

Extend Refinery easily by running the Refinery engine generator

rails generate refinery_engine

to get help on how to use that. Or read the full documentation on writing engines for Refinery

• Portfolio - manage groups of images like an image gallery.
• News - post and manage news items.

Full engine list here

Refinery is released under the MIT license and is copyright (c) 2005-2010 Resolve Digital Ltd.