Alchemy CMS

About

Alchemy is a Rails 3 CMS with a flexible content storing architecture.

Read more on the website and in the guidelines.

Features

• Highly flexible Templating
• Gorgious End-User centric interface
• Multilingual
• SEO
• Access Control
• Fulltext Search
• RSS Feeds
• Contactforms
• Attachments and downloads
• Powerfull image rendering
• Extendable
• Integrates in exsiting Rails Apps
• Caching
• BSD License
• Hostable on any Server that supports RubyOnRails and ImageMagick (Software Requirements)

Rails Version

This branch of Alchemy runs with Rails 3.1.

If you are looking for a Rails 3.0 compatible version check the 2.0-stable branch.

If you are looking for a Rails 2.3 compatible version check the 1.6-stable branch.

Ruby Version

Alchemy runs under Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby 1.9.2, Ruby 1.9.3 and REE (Ruby Enterprise Edition).

Installation

Use the installer (recommended):

gem install alchemy_cms
alchemy new my_magicpage

Start the local server:

rails server

Then just switch to your browser and open http://localhost:3000

Upgrading

Projects running with Alchemy CMS version < 2.1 needs to be upgraded.

Otherwise errors will be raised like this: uninitialized constant EssenceText

You have to use the following Upgrade-Task. Run in terminal:

rake alchemy:upgrade

Add to existing Rails project

In your Gemfile:

gem 'alchemy_cms'

Run in terminal:

bundle install
rake alchemy:install:migrations
rake db:migrate
rake alchemy:db:seed

Tipps

1. This generator creates all necessary folders and files needed for creating your own page layouts and elements for your website:

    rails generate alchemy:scaffold
   

2. If you use the ferret full text search (enabled by default), then please add a job to your crontab that reindexes the ferret index.

    cd /path/to/your/alchemy && RAILS_ENV=production rake ferret:rebuild_index > /dev/null
   

3. You can easily create your element files (for view and editor) depending on the elements.yml with this generator:

    rails generate elements
   

Resources

• Homepage: http://alchemy-cms.com
• Live-Demo: http://demo.alchemy-cms.com (user: demo, password: demo)
• Guidelines: http://guides.alchemy-cms.com
• API Documentation: http://api.alchemy-cms.com
• Issue-Tracker: http://issues.alchemy-cms.com
• Sourcecode: http://source.alchemy-cms.com
• User Group: http://groups.google.com/group/alchemy-cms

Authors

• Thomas von Deyen: https://github.com/tvdeyen
• Robin Böning: https://github.com/robinboening
• Marc Schettke: https://github.com/masche842
• Carsten Fregin: https://github.com/cfregin

License

• BSD: https://raw.github.com/magiclabs/alchemy_cms/master/LICENSE