This branch is a beta development branch. For productive environments use the current rubygems version, or the latest stable branch (2.3-stable).
Alchemy is a Rails 3 CMS with a flexible content storing architecture.
Read more on the website and in the guidelines.
- 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)
This version of Alchemy runs with Rails 3.2.8+.
If you are looking for a Rails 3.1 compatible version check the 2.1-stable branch.
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.
Alchemy runs under Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby 1.9.2, Ruby 1.9.3 and REE (Ruby Enterprise Edition).
Use the installer (recommended):
gem install alchemy_cms --pre
alchemy new my_magicpage
Start the local server:
rails server
Then just switch to your browser and open http://localhost:3000
Projects running with Alchemy CMS version < 2.3 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
In your Gemfile:
gem 'alchemy_cms', :github => 'magiclabs/alchemy_cms'
Run in terminal:
bundle update
rake alchemy:install
Note: If you did not mounted Alchemy on the root route '/'
, then you have to add Alchemy's view helpers manually to your app.
Just paste this in your app/controllers/application_controller.rb
helper Alchemy::PagesHelper
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This generator creates all necessary folders and files needed for creating your own page layouts and elements for your website:
rails generate alchemy:scaffold
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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
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You can easily create your element files (for view and editor) depending on the
elements.yml
with this generator:rails generate alchemy:elements --skip
- Homepage: http://alchemy-cms.com
- Live-Demo: http://demo.alchemy-cms.com (user: demo, password: demo)
- Wiki: http://wiki.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
- 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