Alchemy CMS

About

Alchemy is a powerful 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
   

Resources

• 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

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