Getting Started with Refinery CMS

A brief intro into Refinery CMS and how to use it to create dynamic websites.

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1. refinery cms by: garrett heinlen Friday, March 15, 13
2. who am i? • rails dev • twitter tweeter • work at software allies • 10th contributor to refinery cms Friday, March 15, 13
3. what is a cms? • a content management system allows content to be edited through a backend interface • easily replace text and images • easily manage users of the application • easy Friday, March 15, 13
4. heavy hitters • wordpress • drupal • joomla Friday, March 15, 13
5. why they suck • wordpress is originally a blog engine that people have hacked to be a cms. • drupal is so complex that you can spend more time editing the cms than you would by doing pure html • who likes joomla? Friday, March 15, 13
6. what is it? • content management system • user friendly • easy on the developer • many drop in extensions • ruby! • done the “rails way” • open source Friday, March 15, 13
7. what can it do? • blogs • news engine • contact form • custom engine generators (basic scaffold) • custom form generator • memberships • search • and many more..! Friday, March 15, 13
8. where to start? • get familiar with refinery and how to customize all the things • forget what you just learned and let refinery do it all • profit Friday, March 15, 13
9. getting cozy w/ refinery Overriding refinery’s code rake refinery:override view=layouts/* rake refinery:override view=refinery/* rake refinery:override controller=pages Friday, March 15, 13
10. demo Friday, March 15, 13
11. custom engine • text - wysiwyg editor • resource - file picker • image - image picker rails g refinery:engine person name body:text picture:image Friday, March 15, 13
12. demo Friday, March 15, 13
13. where to get help? • irc: freenode #refinerycms • google group: refinerycms • stack-overflow • dallasrb mailing list • railscasts Friday, March 15, 13
14. thanks @gogogarrett heinleng@gmail.com http://gggarrett.com Friday, March 15, 13