Refinery CMS

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Refinery CMS
Original author(s)David Jones, Resolve Digital
Developer(s)Philip Arndt, Uģis Ozols, Rob Yurkowski, Brice Sanchez
Initial releaseMay 2009 (2009-05)
Stable release
4.0.3[1] / 2019-03-03[±]
Preview release
4.1.0.dev / October 25, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-10-25)
Repositorygithub.com/refinery/refinerycms
Written inRuby
PlatformRuby on Rails
Available inDansk, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Norwegian Bokmål, Português, Slovenian
TypeContent management system
LicenseMIT License[2]
Websitewww.refinerycms.com

Refinery CMS, often shortened to Refinery, is a free and 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[3] and Rails 4.2 and Rails 5.1.

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.[4]

History[edit]

Refinery started as a closed sourced project written by David Jones at Resolve Digital in 2004[5] and went on to be released as open source software under the MIT License on 28 May 2009.[6] Since then it has, under the direction of Philip Arndt and Uģis Ozols, gained popularity[7] and is now the most popular Ruby on Rails CMS [8] with more than 384 contributors [9] and an active community extending the application with engines.[10]

Version 1.0.0 was released[11] on 28 May 2011 – exactly 2 years after it was first released as open source software.

Version 2.0.0 was released[12] on 29 February 2012.

Version 2.1.0 was released[13] on 5 August 2013.

Version 3.0.0 was released[14] on 19 September 2015.

Version 4.0.0 was released [15] on 29 September 2017.

Features[edit]

  • Engine architecture
  • WYSIWYG content editing
  • Localisation (currently supports 29 languages [16])
  • Page management
  • Image and File management
  • Contact form and inquiry management
  • Search engine optimization (SEO)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The most popular Ruby on Rails CMS". refinerycms.com. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
  2. ^ "Licence". GitHub. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
  3. ^ Ruby Weekly (2012-03-01). "Ruby Weekly Issue 83 – March 1, 2012". Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  4. ^ "resolve's refinerycms at master". GitHub. Retrieved 2010-11-17.
  5. ^ Patrick Morrow (2009-06-04). "RefineryCMS Goes Public". Archived from the original on August 12, 2011. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  6. ^ David Jones (2009-05-28). "First checkin – public release begins". GitHub. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
  7. ^ Dan Benjamin and Jason Seifer (2010-01-21). The Ruby Show: Episode 104: Something New. Event occurs at 09:58. Archived from the original on 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2010-07-12.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  8. ^ "The Ruby Toolbox – Content Management". Retrieved 2010-12-19.
  9. ^ "Contributors to resolve/refinery – Github". GitHub. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
  10. ^ "Engines – refinerycms – Github". GitHub. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
  11. ^ "Refinery CMS 1.0 Released". Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
  12. ^ "Refinery CMS 2.0 Released". Archived from the original on 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
  13. ^ "Refinery CMS 2.1.0 Released". Archived from the original on 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  14. ^ "Refinery CMS 3.0.0 Released". Retrieved 2015-09-23.
  15. ^ "Refinery CMS 4.0.0 Released with Rails 5.1 support – Refinery CMS". www.refinerycms.com. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  16. ^ Gregg Pollack and Nathaniel Bibler (2010-07-06). Episode #91 – July 6, 2010 (Flash). Event occurs at 01:54. Retrieved 2010-07-12.

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