This branch is a beta development branch. For productive environments use the current rubygems version, or the latest stable branch (2.4-stable).

Alchemy is a powerful, userfriendly and flexible Rails 3 CMS.

Read more on the website and in the guidelines.

• Highly flexible Templating
• Gorgious End-User centric interface
• Multilingual
• SEO
• Access Control
• Fulltext Search
• RSS Feeds
• Contactforms
• Attachments and downloads
• Powerful image rendering
• Extendable
• Integrates in exsiting Rails Apps
• Caching
• BSD License
• Hostable on any Server that supports RubyOnRails and ImageMagick (Software Requirements)

This version of Alchemy runs with Rails 3.2.8+.

If you are looking for a Rails 3.1 compatible version check the 2.1-stable branch.

If you are looking for a Rails 3.0 compatible version check the 2.0-stable branch.

If you are looking for a Rails 2.3 compatible version check the 1.6-stable branch.

Alchemy runs with Ruby 1.9.2 and Ruby 1.9.3.

For a Ruby 1.8.7 compatible version use the 2.3-stable branch.

Use the installer (recommended):

gem install alchemy_cms --pre
alchemy new my_magicpage

Start the local server:

rails server

Then just switch to your browser and open http://localhost:3000

In your Gemfile:

gem 'alchemy_cms', :github => 'magiclabs/alchemy_cms'

Run in terminal:

bundle update
rake alchemy:install

Note: If you did not mounted Alchemy on the root route '/', then you have to add Alchemy's view helpers manually to your app.

Just paste this in your app/controllers/application_controller.rb

helper Alchemy::PagesHelper

After updating Alchemy you should run the upgrader.

Run in terminal:

rake alchemy:upgrade

1. This generator creates all necessary folders and files needed for creating your own page layouts and elements for your website:

    rails generate alchemy:scaffold
   

2. If you use the ferret full text search (enabled by default), then please add a job to your crontab that reindexes the ferret index.

    cd /path/to/your/alchemy && RAILS_ENV=production rake ferret:rebuild_index > /dev/null
   

3. You can easily create your element files (for view and editor) depending on the elements.yml with this generator:

    rails generate alchemy:elements --skip
   

• Homepage: http://alchemy-cms.com
• Live-Demo: http://demo.alchemy-cms.com (user: demo, password: demo)
• API Documentation: http://rubydoc.info/github/magiclabs/alchemy_cms
• Issue-Tracker: https://github.com/magiclabs/alchemy_cms/issues
• Sourcecode: https://github.com/magiclabs/alchemy_cms
• User Group: http://groups.google.com/group/alchemy-cms
• Changelog: http://revision.io/alchemy_cms

• Thomas von Deyen: https://github.com/tvdeyen
• Robin Böning: https://github.com/robinboening
• Marc Schettke: https://github.com/masche842
• Hendrik Mans: https://github.com/hmans
• Carsten Fregin: https://github.com/cfregin

• BSD: https://raw.github.com/magiclabs/alchemy_cms/master/LICENSE