locomotivecms/engine

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: no_releases no_license

Adoption not part of the score

2323 stars · 615 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Locomotive is an open-source Ruby on Rails CMS platform for creating, publishing, and editing websites, with native multi-site support and a Liquid-based templating system. Sites are developed locally with the Wagon CLI tool, deployed via an internal REST API, and an editing back-office is auto-generated for content editors.

Use cases

• build and host multiple client sites from one CMS instance
• let non-technical clients edit website content through a friendly back-office
• develop sites locally with Wagon and deploy them with a single command
• create custom content types without writing SQL
• build localized multilingual websites
• manage site content programmatically through a REST API

When to choose

• you're a Ruby/Rails developer building sites for clients who need simple content editing
• you need to manage many sites from a single self-hosted instance
• you prefer Liquid templating and a local-first development workflow
• you want custom content types and editable page regions without database work

When to avoid

• your stack isn't Ruby or you don't want to run a Rails/MongoDB server
• you need a plugin-heavy ecosystem like WordPress
• you want a fully headless or static-site-only workflow
• you need a database other than MongoDB

Facets

application · maturity active

web-framework templating auth authorization file-upload internationalization api-framework cms web-development self-hosted ruby self-hosted cms liquid-templating multi-site mongoid mongodb rails back-office wagon content-management web-server linux docker

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="locomotivecms/engine")