Best Ruby on Rails CMS

If you are looking for the best Ruby on Rails content management system, then Radiant should be on your short list of options. Radiant provides all the facilities of a content management system in a very easy and powerful way. It can help you by creating a nice website for personal or organizational purpose. It provides the foundation for an easy to maintain a website when it is developed. Radiant is not a PHP based CMS; it is written in Ruby and utilizes the Ruby on Rails framework. It is very efficient for developing websites. Usually, smaller companies without large amounts of content, need for document management and/or integrated workflow use Radiant as the content management system for their purposes. ServiceCycle provides Radiant CMS hosting and customization

You can add additional functionality by adding extensions. Extensions enhance the capabilities of the website and make it more flexible and easy to use.

Radiant includes all the features of a good content management system. It consists of a simple administrative interface which is quite good for beginners. The three key components of the administrative panel are page, snippets and layouts. It looks similar to three functions used in blog software, but it possesses more functionality and enhancements when compared to blog software. Different pages are managed through the "pages" part, content is managed through "snippet" part and the website designs and layouts are managed in the "layout" part.

Radiant also comes with a macro language called Radius which works in the form of custom tags. It provides a variety of useful dynamic functionality; example: manage parent-child page relationships and inclusion of content from a snippet.

The feature of page caching is also available in Radiant content management system.

With all these features, it is possible to create an easily maintainable website which will solve the purpose of personal website. As it is open source, you can use the content management system without spending your money. So if you want to use a simple, easy to use, ruby based content management system, then you should choose the Radiant Content management system.