FrancisCMS

 FrancisCMS  is an IndieWeb-friendly content management system built with Ruby on Rails. It was conceived and is maintained by.

History
FrancisCMS began life on 2014-10-07 as a Sinatra application (hence the name) before becoming a Rails application before becoming a mountable Rails engine.

At present, FrancisCMS is a white label Rails engine meant to be included in an existing Rails application at a particular mount point (, for instance). FrancisCMS provides models, controllers, and views for CRUD-ing supported content types. The host Rails application is responsible for providing a user authentication system, styles with CSS, and behavior with JavaScript. FrancisCMS also exposes a number of useful methods, helpers, and configuration variables available for use in the host Rails application.

Features

 * Supports multiple content types (posts, links, and photos) with drafts, tags, and RSS feeds.
 * Supports syndicating content types to several third-party silos.
 * Receives and verifies webmentions, displaying verified webmentions on content pages.
 * Provides alternative representations of content types as Markdown and jf2-formatted JSON.
 * Inherits styling (CSS) and scripting (JavaScript) from the host Rails application.
 * Delegates authentication to the host Rails application.

IndieWeb Examples
People currently using FrancisCMS:


 * on sixtwothree.org since 2016-01-14 (publicly announced 2016-02-10)

Installation
Include the FrancisCMS engine in your project's Gemfile:

gem 'francis_cms', git: 'https://github.com/FrancisCMS/FrancisCMS'

Run  to install FrancisCMS and its dependencies.

Usage
Full instructions for implementing and configuring FrancisCMS are available on GitHub.

Source Code

 * FrancisCMS GitHub Organization
 * FrancisCMS source code on GitHub

License
FrancisCMS is freely available under the MIT License. Use it, learn from it, fork it, improve it, change it, tailor it to your needs.