Refinery CMS

Refinery CMS
Original author(s)	David Jones, Resolve Digital
Developer(s)	Philip Arndt, Uģis Ozols, Rob Yurkowski, Brice Sanchez
Initial release	May 2009
Stable release	4.0.3 / 2019-03-03[±]
Preview release	4.1.0.dev / October 25, 2017; 7 years ago
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
Website	www.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.

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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]

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.

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)

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"Refinery CMS 1.0 Released". Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
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"Refinery CMS 2.0 Released". Archived from the original on 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
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"Refinery CMS 2.1.0 Released". Archived from the original on 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
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"Refinery CMS 3.0.0 Released". Retrieved 2015-09-23.
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"The most popular Ruby on Rails CMS". refinerycms.com. Retrieved 2019-05-01.

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"Licence". GitHub. Retrieved 2010-07-08.

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"resolve's refinerycms at master". GitHub. Retrieved 2010-11-17.

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Patrick Morrow (2009-06-04). "RefineryCMS Goes Public". Archived from the original on August 12, 2011. Retrieved 2013-01-23.

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David Jones (2009-05-28). "First checkin – public release begins". GitHub. Retrieved 2010-07-08.

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"The Ruby Toolbox – Content Management". Retrieved 2010-12-19.

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"Contributors to resolve/refinery – Github". GitHub. Retrieved 2010-12-19.

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"Engines – refinerycms – Github". GitHub. Retrieved 2010-11-18.

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"Refinery CMS 1.0 Released". Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2010-05-28.

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"Refinery CMS 2.0 Released". Archived from the original on 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2012-02-29.

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"Refinery CMS 2.1.0 Released". Archived from the original on 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2013-09-16.

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"Refinery CMS 3.0.0 Released". Retrieved 2015-09-23.

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"Refinery CMS 4.0.0 Released with Rails 5.1 support – Refinery CMS". www.refinerycms.com. Retrieved 2017-11-18.

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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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