Alchemy CMS

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Alchemy is a powerfull Content Management System (CMS) with an extremly flexible content storing architecture.

Features

  • Highly flexible Templating:
    • Content is stored in small parts not as a complete, monolithic page
    • The designer chooses the template structure, not the CMS!
    • Every Design is possible, no templating, or theming restrictions
    • Even Flash® Content Management is possible
  • Gorgious End-User centric interface:
    • No markup editors
  • Multilingual:
    • Create as many (complete independent) language trees as you want
    • URL based language switching
  • SEO
    • Every Part of SEO is manageable by the user
    • Human readable urls (multilingual)
    • automatic XML Sitemap generation
  • Access Control:
    • Rolebased Authentification (RBAS)
    • Protect pages for restricted access
  • Fulltext Search
  • RSS Feeds
  • Contactforms
  • Attachments and downloads
  • Powerfull image rendering
    • Resizing
    • Image Cropping via an graphical Userinterface!
    • Borders, Text, Rotation
    • and much more via Imagemagick processing (polaroid effect, etc.)
    • and all this gets cached!
  • Extendable:
    • Flexible Plugin DSL allows you to add custom plugins into Alchemy
  • Integrates in exsiting Rails Apps
  • Caching
  • Completely free:
    • BSD License
    • No Enterprise Licences, or Community Editions
  • Hostable on any Server that supports RubyOnRails and ImageMagick (Software Requirements)

Rails Version

This version of Alchemy runs with Rails 3.0.10.

If you are looking for a Rails 2 compatible version check the rails-2 branch.

A Rails 3.1 compatible beta version can be found in the next_stable branch.

Ruby Version

Alchemy runs with REE, Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby 1.9.2 and Ruby 1.9.3.

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

Add to existing Rails project

In your Gemfile:

gem 'alchemy_cms'

Run in terminal:

bundle install
rake alchemy:prepare
rake db:migrate
rake 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

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