refinery/refinerycms

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3908 stars · 1225 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Refinery CMS is an open source, extendable content management system built as a Ruby on Rails engine, supporting Rails 6.1 through 8.1+ and Ruby 3.x to 4.x. It is designed so non-technical clients can update their own websites, while developers can customize the look and add functionality through custom extensions.

Use cases

• build a client-editable website on rails
• add a cms to an existing ruby on rails app
• let non-technical users update page content themselves
• create a news or blog section for a rails site
• manage site pages and images without a separate admin tool
• extend a cms with custom rails engines

When to choose

• your stack is ruby on rails and you want cms features that follow the rails way
• the site owner needs simple self-service content editing without complexity
• you want to extend the cms with custom rails extensions
• you prefer conventional rails templating over a new templating language

When to avoid

• you need a standalone cms outside of a rails application
• you want a headless or api-first cms
• your project is not ruby-based
• you need a highly complex enterprise publishing workflow out of the box

Facets

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web-framework templating ui-components plugin-system file-upload image-processing cms web-development backend self-hosted ruby self-hosted cross-platform ruby-on-rails content-management cms rails-engine extendable end-user-friendly web-server

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