Refinery CMS: BostonRB CMS Showdown

Reﬁnery CMS

Hi!www.enlightsolutions.comon the InterTubes Hiring dpickett on Twitter

• Built primarily by the folks at Resolve Digital (A New Zealand Agency)• In Active Development• Runs with Rails 3 goodness• Solid, modular architecture

Development Status•1,563 watchers, 440 forks• 150 Contributors• Recently went 1.0!• Rails 3 compatible

Problems Well Suited For Reﬁnery• Stakeholder want to edit content on their site• You have an existing app that requires a subset of CMS features• You have an an app where you’re constantly changing copy, and it’s disrupting development• You need a CMS architected for internationalization

Core Features • Files • Pages • Images • Template/Layout • Page Parts

Opinions• Devise for authentication• FriendlyID for permalinks• Dragonﬂy for Image Processing• will_paginate for pagination• Favors ERB over liquid or other templating languages

Engine Architecture• All components are engine gems• Pick and choose what you want• Build your own

Popular Engines• Blog• Portfolio• News• Inquiries (Contact)

Installation • Download the gem • A Few Extra Hurdles to get it working on Heroku#> gem install refinerycms#> refinerycms <cms_project_name>#> rails s

Page Functions•Nesting pages• Editable meta tags and title tags•Redirection• Including in a nav bar

Administrative UI

Administrative UI• Tabular• Uses WhyMeEditor (and JQuery)• Behind Devise Authentication

Dashboard

Solid Documentation

Solid Documentation• Uses the Rails Guides format• Can be found at http://reﬁnerycms.com/guides• Topics Include: Installation, Mounting in an existing app, Customizing Designs

Extensibility• Engine driven• Includes an Engine generator• Settings Abstraction• Ability to add functionality to the administrative UI (somewhat limiting)

Takeaways• Easy to install• Easy to extend• Strong opinions• Under active development• Requires some maintenance

Biggest Win The ability to mountReﬁnery in an existing app

Thanks!• I’ll post slides @ www.enlightsolutions.com• Chat me up on Twitter: @dpickett• Chat me up on IRC: dpickett in #boston.rb• We’re hiring!

Refinery CMS: BostonRB CMS Showdown

by Dan Pickett on Jul 12, 2011

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