Refinery CMS

Refinery CMS

Original author(s)	David Jones, Resolve Digital
Developer(s)	Philip Arndt, Uģis Ozols, Rob Yurkowski
Initial release	May 2009
Stable release	3.0.4 / July 18, 2016
Preview release	3.1.0.dev / September 19, 2015
Development status	Active
Written in	Ruby
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Ruby on Rails
Available in	Dansk, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Norwegian Bokmål, Português, Slovenian
Type	Content management system
License	MIT License[1]
Website	http://www.refinerycms.com/

Refinery CMS, often shortened to Refinery, is an open source content management system written in Ruby as a Ruby on Rails web application with jQuery used as the JavaScript library. Refinery CMS supports Rails 3.2^[2] and Rails 4.2 via 3.0.0.

Refinery differs from similar products by targeting a non-technical end user and allowing the developer to create a flexible website rapidly by staying as close as possible to the conventions of the Ruby on Rails framework.^[3]

Version 1.0.0 was released^[4] on 28 May 2011 - exactly 2 years after it was first released as open source software.

Version 2.0.0 was released^[5] on 29 February 2012.

Version 2.1.0 was released^[6] on 5 August 2013.

Version 3.0.0 was released^[7] on 19 September 2015.

History

Refinery started as a closed sourced project written by David Jones at Resolve Digital in 2004^[8] and went on to be released as open source software under the MIT License on 28 May 2009.^[9] Since then it has, under the direction of Philip Arndt and Uģis Ozols, gained popularity^[10] and is now the most popular Ruby on Rails CMS ^[11] with more than 200 contributors ^[12] and an active community extending the application with engines.^[13]

Features

• Engine architecture
• WYSIWYG content editing
• Localisation (currently supports 29 languages ^[14])
• Page management
• Image and File management
• Contact form and inquiry management
• Search engine optimization (SEO)

See also

• Comparison of content management systems
• Radiant
• Typo

External links

• Official website
• Official Code Repository
• Refinery CMS Guides
• Official Demo
• Official Google Group
• #refinerycms ^connect Official IRC Channel
• Rails Magazine: An Overview of Refinery - a Rails CMS
• Finalists in the New Zealand Open Source Awards 2010

References

1. "Licence". Retrieved 2010-07-08.
2. Ruby Weekly (2012-03-01). "Ruby Weekly Issue 83 - March 1, 2012". Retrieved 2012-03-01.
3. "resolve's refinerycms at master". Retrieved 2010-11-17.
4. "Refinery CMS 1.0 Released". Retrieved 2010-05-28.
5. "Refinery CMS 2.0 Released". Retrieved 2012-02-29.
6. "Refinery CMS 2.1.0 Released". Retrieved 2013-09-16.
7. "Refinery CMS 3.0.0 Released". Retrieved 2015-09-23.
8. Patrick Morrow (2009-06-04). "RefineryCMS Goes Public". Archived from the original on August 12, 2011. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
9. David Jones (2009-05-28). "First checkin - public release begins". Retrieved 2010-07-08.
10. Dan Benjamin and Jason Seifer (2010-01-21). The Ruby Show: Episode 104: Something New. Event occurs at 09:58. Archived from the original (MP3) on 2010-01-21. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
11. "The Ruby Toolbox - Content Management". Retrieved 2010-12-19.
12. "Contributors to resolve/refinery - Github". Retrieved 2010-12-19.
13. "Engines - refinerycms - Github". Retrieved 2010-11-18.
14. Gregg Pollack and Nathaniel Bibler (2010-07-06). Episode #91 - July 6, 2010 (Flash). Event occurs at 01:54. Retrieved 2010-07-12.