Software:Refinery CMS

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Refinery CMS
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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

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

  • 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

  • Comparison of content management systems

References

  1. "The most popular Ruby on Rails CMS". refinerycms.com. https://www.refinerycms.com/. Retrieved 2019-05-01. 
  2. "Licence". https://github.com/resolve/refinerycms/blob/master/license.md. 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20120305033310/http://rubyweekly.com/archive/83.html. Retrieved 2012-03-01. 
  4. "resolve's refinerycms at master". https://github.com/resolve/refinerycms. Retrieved 2010-11-17. 
  5. Patrick Morrow (2009-06-04). "RefineryCMS Goes Public". Archived from the original on August 12, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110812160513/http://blog.resolvedigital.com/2009/06/04/refinerycms-goes-public/. Retrieved 2013-01-23. 
  6. David Jones (2009-05-28). "First checkin – public release begins". https://github.com/resolve/refinerycms/commit/feed8f4d9084354497538def0d6f7aa13d829fa8. 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.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  8. "The Ruby Toolbox – Content Management". http://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/content_management_systems.html. Retrieved 2010-12-19. 
  9. "Contributors to resolve/refinery – Github". https://github.com/resolve/refinerycms/contributors. Retrieved 2010-12-19. 
  10. "Engines – refinerycms – Github". https://github.com/resolve/refinerycms/wiki/Engines. Retrieved 2010-11-18. 
  11. "Refinery CMS 1.0 Released". http://refinerycms.com/blog/refinery-cms-1-0-0-released. Retrieved 2010-05-28. 
  12. "Refinery CMS 2.0 Released". http://refinerycms.com/blog/refinery-cms-2-0-0-released. Retrieved 2012-02-29. 
  13. "Refinery CMS 2.1.0 Released". http://refinerycms.com/blog/refinery-cms-210-released. Retrieved 2013-09-16. 
  14. "Refinery CMS 3.0.0 Released". http://www.refinerycms.com/blog/refinery-cms-3-0-0-released. Retrieved 2015-09-23. 
  15. "Refinery CMS 4.0.0 Released with Rails 5.1 support – Refinery CMS" (in en). http://www.refinerycms.com/blog/posts/refinery-cms-4-dot-0-dot-0-released-with-rails-5-dot-1-support. 
  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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