Refinery CMS

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 CMS

Original author(s)	David Jones, Resolve Digital
Developer(s)	Philip Arndt, Uģis Ozols, Rob Yurkowski, Brice Sanchez
Initial release	May 2009 (2009-05)
Stable release	4.0.3[1] / 2019-03-03[±]
Preview release	4.1.0.dev / October 25, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-10-25)
Repository	github.com/refinery/refinerycms
Written in	Ruby
Platform	Ruby on Rails
Available in	Dansk, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Norwegian Bokmål, Português, Slovenian
Type	Content management system
License	MIT License[2]
Website	www.refinerycms.com

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. 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.

External links

• Official website
• Rails Magazine: An Overview of Refinery – a Rails CMS
• Finalists in the New Zealand Open Source Awards 2010