# refinery/refinerycms

An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.1 to 8.1+ and Ruby 3.x to 4.x

Repository: https://github.com/refinery/refinerycms
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/refinerycms
Homepage: https://github.com/refinery/refinerycms
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: refinery, ruby, rails, news, refinery-cms, demo, inquiry, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-05-11T04:48:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 81, release rhythm 83, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6306, "days_push": 114, "days_rel": 114, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3908, forks 1225 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:28.820107+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, templating, ui-components, plugin-system, file-upload, image-processing
- domain: cms, web-development, backend, self-hosted
- platform: ruby, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: ruby-on-rails, content-management, cms, rails-engine, extendable, end-user-friendly, web-server

## Member repositories
- refinery/refinerycms (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:28.820107+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 2026-08-29T18:25:06.207447+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/refinery/refinerycms (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:28.820107+00:00, sha 74b9fbdb68ff)
  - homepage: https://github.com/refinery/refinerycms (fetched 2026-08-29T09:19:05.768017+00:00, sha 12065dd54d54)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.