# radiant/radiant

Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.

Repository: https://github.com/radiant/radiant
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/radiant
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-03-11T04:19:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 64/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 71, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6648, "days_push": 175, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1678, forks 337 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:21.035676+00:00)

## What it is
Radiant is an open source, general-purpose content management system built as a traditional Ruby on Rails application, aimed at small teams. It offers hierarchical page management, flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts and the Radius tagging language, plus user management and a plugin system.

## Use cases
- manage a small team website with hierarchical pages
- build a general purpose cms site not just a blog
- edit content with markdown or textile filters
- extend a rails cms with custom plugins
- self-host a lightweight content management system

## When to choose
- you want a simple, no-fluff self-hosted cms on Ruby on Rails
- you need page hierarchies, snippets and flexible templating without heavy features
- your team prefers markdown/textile content authoring

## When to avoid
- you need a modern actively developed cms with current Rails support
- you want a headless or API-first cms
- you need a blogging-only engine or a JavaScript-based cms

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: templating, caching, ui-components, plugin-system
- domain: cms, web-development, self-hosted
- platform: ruby, self-hosted
- tags: content-management, ruby-on-rails, small-teams, radius-templating, markdown, textile, web-server

## Member repositories
- radiant/radiant (main) score 64

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:21.035676+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 2026-08-30T03:41:34.351315+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/radiant/radiant (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:21.035676+00:00, sha 1286aa1ded7d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.