# owen2345/camaleon-cms

Camaleon CMS is a dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails

Repository: https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/camaleon-cms
Homepage: https://camaleon.website
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-25T21:08:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 75, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4073, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 108, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1238, forks 288 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:05.620336+00:00)

## What it is
Camaleon CMS is a dynamic and advanced content management system built on Ruby on Rails, designed as a flexible alternative to WordPress for Rails developers. It lets users build custom content architectures with custom fields and content types without coding, and extend functionality through themes, plugins, multi-site, and multi-language support.

## Use cases
- manage website content without coding using custom fields and content types
- run multiple sites from a single Rails installation
- build multilingual websites with translation support
- migrate an existing WordPress site to a Rails-based CMS
- integrate a CMS into an existing Ruby on Rails project
- create an online store with the Camaleon ecommerce plugin
- customize site appearance with themes and drag-and-drop menus
- manage user roles and content permissions for a publishing team

## When to choose
- you are a Ruby on Rails developer who wants a WordPress-like CMS that lives inside your Rails app
- you need flexible custom content types and fields defined through an admin UI rather than code
- you must host several distinct sites or languages from one installation
- you want a plugin/theme ecosystem with ecommerce, contact forms, and SEO built in
- you need built-in caching, security hardening, and S3 file uploads out of the box

## When to avoid
- your stack is not Ruby on Rails - WordPress, Ghost, or Strapi may fit better
- you need a headless/API-only CMS to serve a separate frontend framework
- you want a fully static site generator rather than a dynamic database-backed CMS
- your team has no Rails experience and cannot maintain a Ruby codebase
- you require a very lightweight blogging tool without CMS overhead

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, templating, file-upload, caching, auth, plugin-system, search-engine, internationalization, security, documentation, email, image-processing, middleware, routing, state-management, theme, self-hosted, developer-tools, api-framework, http-server
- domain: cms, web-development, backend, self-hosted, e-commerce, developer-tools, apis, documentation
- platform: ruby, self-hosted, windows, cloud, cross-platform
- tags: ruby-on-rails, content-management-system, wordpress-alternative, multi-site, multi-language, custom-content-types, custom-fields, themes, plugins, shortcodes, widgets, drag-and-drop-menus, seo, html5, bootstrap-3, amazon-s3, file-uploads, user-roles, wordpress-migration, ecommerce-plugin, contact-forms, newsletter, rss, sqlite, mysql, aws-cloudfront, open-source, mit-license, localization, rails, web-server, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- owen2345/camaleon-cms (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:05.620336+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:21:48.457504+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:05.620336+00:00, sha 21e4a2d7cb74)
  - homepage: https://camaleon.website (fetched 2026-08-29T12:20:57.536296+00:00, sha 0933d7c5ef16)
  - site_page: https://camaleon.website/docs.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:20:57.538916+00:00, sha 4ef80309a748)
  - site_page: https://camaleon.website/documentation/category/40757-developer-docs/get-started.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:20:57.540868+00:00, sha 999021f697fb)
  - site_page: https://camaleon.website/about  (fetched 2026-08-29T12:20:57.543111+00:00, sha 18398af55bfe)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.