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 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.

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

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

Version 2.0.0 was released on 29 February 2012.

Version 2.1.0 was released on 5 August 2013.

Version 3.0.0 was released on 19 September 2015.

Version 4.0.0 was released on 29 September 2017.

Features

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