BrowserCMS Reference Documentation

BrowserCMS Reference Documentation

BrowserCMS is a general purpose, open source Web Content Management System (CMS), written in Ruby on Rails. It is designed to support three distinct groups of people:

  1. Non-technical web editors who want a humane system to manage their site, without needing to understand what HTML or even Rails is.
  2. Designers who want to create large and elegantly designed websites with no artificial constraints by the CMS.
  3. Developers who want to add a CMS into their Rails projects, or create CMS driven websites for their clients.

This guide is for BrowserCMS v3.0.1.

1 Guides

Below are a list of guides on how the above groups can use BrowswerCMS, to design, build and maintain websites.

1.1 Getting Started

The easy way to install BrowserCMS and create a project with it.

1.2 User’s Guide

How to use the basic features of BrowserCMS.

1.3 Installing a Module

How to add a module to your BrowserCMS project.

1.4 Developer Guide

How to customize and extend a BrowserCMS site to add dynamic behavior and content.

1.5 Designer’s Guide

How to turn a design into a styled website, by building templates. (Incomplete)

1.6 Deployment Guide

How to configure Apache and Passenger to work with BrowserCMS in production mode.

1.7 Building on the Edge

For developers who want the very latest source code from Github and build the BrowserCMS gem themselves.