Welcome to Railfrog Trac

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Introduction

Railfrog is a user-friendly, open-source website deployment and content management system built with Ruby on Rails, producing well structured and standards-compliant pages with Web 2.0 goodness. Railfrog makes it easy for developers, designers, webmasters, or just about anyone else to deploy and manage a website.

Because Railfrog has been able to learn from so many other great projects out there, and because the idea of a Rails CMS has been kicking about for a while, our wishlist is alarmingly large. Our way of handling this is to concentrate on keeping Railfrog as simple as possible - we know how to build plenty of amazing features, but only the essentials will go into the core. Anything else can go into a plugin. Please do tell us what you want and help to guide our decisions. We hope Railfrog will be the ideal tool for building simple, easily maintained sites that integrate well with other web applications and which allow content to be easily updated.

What's the status of Railfrog?

Development effort is currently focussed on the 0.6 version, which now has support for Markdown and Textile, so you can create pages in plain text, without using the WYSIWYG HTML editor that was available in early versions - see CreatingContentInRailfrog. Railfrog runs as a Rails Engine, so you have a choice between installing it into your existing app or using the "ref_app" application which works out of the box.

These first releases are aimed mainly at developers, but it is pretty easy to set up for anyone with a browser, a text editor and a little patience :-) Watch RailFrogNews, Timeline to see our progress. There is also an automated Roadmap, as well as a manually maintained RoadMap.

How can I join the party?

Maybe you'd like to read some UserStories - what people want to do with Railfrog - and add your own ideas? Or perhaps just leave us some scribbled UserFeedback. Any Rails developers and designers out there may want to look at GettingStartedForDevelopers, see who's on TheRailfrogTeam, see our CurrentDevelopment and contribute to the UserDocs or hop over to the MailingList . There's also an IRC channel - see ChatLogs. See you there!

For those who are more interested in the ideas behind Railfrog, try DesignConcepts - this is is a really simple CMS, if it's starting to look complex then reading this page may be a good place to start.

Where next?