Refinery CMS, often shortened to Refinery, is a

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written in

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as a

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web application with

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used as the

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. Refinery CMS supports Rails 3.2 and Rails 4.2 and Rails 5.1. Refinery differs from similar products by targeting a non-technical end user and allowing the developer to create a flexible website rapidly by staying as close as possible to the conventions of the

framework.

History

Refinery started as a closed sourced project written by David Jones a
Resolve Digital
in 2004 and went on to be released as open source software under the

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on 28 May 2009. Since then it has, under the direction of Philip Arndt and Uģis Ozols, gained popularity and is now the most popular Ruby on Rails CMS with more than 384 contributors and an active community extending the application with engines. Version 1.0.0 was released on 28 May 2011 – exactly 2 years after it was first released as open source software. Version 2.0.0 was released on 29 February 2012. Version 2.1.0 was released on 5 August 2013. Version 3.0.0 was released on 19 September 2015. Version 4.0.0 was released on 29 September 2017.

Features

* Engine architecture *

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content editing * Localisation (currently supports 29 languages ) * Page management * Image and File management * Contact form and inquiry management *

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References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.refinerycms.com/
Rails Magazine: An Overview of Refinery – a Rails CMS

Finalists in the New Zealand Open Source Awards 2010
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