adva-cms 0.2.1: The summer release!
We are happy to announce adva-cms 0.2.1 after a little longer break since our last release. This release introduces things like custom tab indexes for the form builder, two new cells, bunch of bug fixes and other additions. We also did some battle testing on the spam filters and made them more reliable to make sure they work as expected.Out now: adva-cms 0.2.0: The usability release!
Over the past month, our goal was to improve the usability of the adva-cms backend interface and to clean up our HTML and CSS codebase. We created a new admin layout from scratch and now it looks prettier than ever (at least we like to think so)!
This release also introduces the menu and table builders for developers which helped us to clean up the view code and to cut out many partials.
Now we are happy to deliver you a cleaner, clearer and more usable adva-cms today! Enjoy!
adva-cms 0.1.2 released!
Yet another iteration of adva-cms development has passed and we are proud to announce a new release. Release 0.1.2 includes new features and improvements like compatibility with rails 2.3, model translations by Joshua Harvey, more decoupled engines that allow installation of specific engines and lots of other new functionality and bug fixes!
adva-cms 0.1.1 released!
One month has passed since the release of adva-cms 0.1.1 and things have moved quite a bit since then. The changes include a complete revision of our testing philosophy, the migration to more current plugins/gems (like paperclip and stringex), the removal of some rather community-related engines, lots of fixes and interesting features and additions.
Read more about this release and our plans for the next release.
adva-cms 0.1.0 released!
Almost a year after we have started the development we are happy to announce the first release of adva-cms! This still is an experimental release and you may encounter bugs and some parts have some rough edges.
The adva-cms project originally was started by Sven Fuchs and was meant to be a rewrite of Mephisto, but in time it grew larger and became what it is today - a bleeding edge CMS platform.
The idea behind adva-cms is that you can plug in different engines, depending on your need. If you only want a blog you do not need to care about other engines than the blog engine. And if you later decide that you need a forum, well, you can just create it by using the forum engine. Unlike other Rails projects, the fresh copy of adva-cms leaves your app directory completely empty. This is meant to be an area for your own application that runs on top of adva-cms as a foundation.
Welcome to adva cms!
adva cms is a cutting edge open source cms application plattform based on Ruby on Rails and Rails Engines.
It currently comes with core engines such as:
- Cms: build multiple sites with hierarchically organized sections
- Blog: blogging system heavily inspired by Mephisto
- Wiki: a wiki engine inspired by Signal Wiki
- Forum: a forum system inspired by Beast
Read more about the concept behind adva-cms on the wiki.
Different from other Rails applications the all-engines approach of adva cms allows you to build your own applications on top of it. It also makes it very flexible and extensible: our plan is to make it possible to only pick those engines/features that you really need for your application and omit the rest. As they are still all designed to work together seemlessly and reuse each others functionality the whole plattform feels much more consistent to a collection of similar but separate Rails applications.
We've put together a brief overview about the most important engines that are already in adva cms here: adva cms engines overview.
Also you can read more about adva cms on the wiki here:
- Getting started (Download & install)
- Sites and sections
- Editing themes