# locomotivecms/engine

A platform to create, publish and edit sites

Repository: https://github.com/locomotivecms/engine
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/locomotivecms-engine
Homepage: http://www.locomotivecms.com
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-08-07T08:51:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 48/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 35, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5886, "days_push": 391, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2323, forks 615 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:37.250400+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, templating, auth, authorization, file-upload, internationalization, api-framework
- domain: cms, web-development, self-hosted
- platform: ruby, self-hosted
- tags: cms, liquid-templating, multi-site, mongoid, mongodb, rails, back-office, wagon, content-management, web-server, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- locomotivecms/engine (main) score 48

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.250400+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 2026-08-30T02:38:36.059553+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/locomotivecms/engine (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.250400+00:00, sha 91fc212517f6)
  - homepage: http://www.locomotivecms.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:18:57.619121+00:00, sha 6ad24ca0a20d)
  - site_page: https://www.locomotivecms.com/features (fetched 2026-08-29T10:18:57.621936+00:00, sha 733a2e148e87)
  - site_page: https://www.locomotivecms.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T10:18:57.623849+00:00, sha 81ed888eea63)
  - site_page: https://doc.locomotivecms.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:18:57.626157+00:00, sha 72ef8c4522d1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.