Articles from August 2008

Welcome to adva cms!

posted by Christopher Floess on August 27, 2008 12:15

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: