Initial release May 2009 (2009-05) | Development status Active | |
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Original author(s) Developer(s) Philip Arndt, Uģis Ozols, Rob Yurkowski Stable release 3.0.5 / November 23, 2016; 3 months ago (2016-11-23) Preview release 3.1.0.dev / September 19, 2015; 17 months ago (2015-09-19) | ||
Refinery CMS, often shortened to Refinery, is an open source content management system written in Ruby as a Ruby on Rails web application with jQuery used as the JavaScript library. Refinery CMS supports Rails 3.2 and Rails 4.2 via 3.0.0.
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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 Ruby on Rails framework.
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.
History
Refinery started as a closed sourced project written by David Jones at Resolve Digital in 2004 and went on to be released as open source software under the MIT License 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 200 contributors and an active community extending the application with engines.