Alchemy CMS

Alchemy CMS, or just Alchemy, is a free and open-source content management system written on top of the Ruby on Rails web application framework. It is released under the BSD license and the code is available on GitHub. It comes as a mountable engine and is packaged as a Ruby gem.^[2]

Alchemy CMS
Developer(s)	Thomas von Deyen, Robin Böning, Martin Meyerhoff
Initial release	June 2010 (2010-06)
Stable release	7.3.4[1] / 2024-11-18[±]
Repository	github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms
Written in	Ruby
Platform	Ruby on Rails
Available in	Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Русский
Type	Content management system
License	BSD License
Website	alchemy-cms.com

History

In 2007 the project started closed source and had a different name. In June 2010 the software was open sourced under the name Alchemy CMS by Thomas von Deyen. Since Alchemy CMS is a Ruby Gem it gets released on the rubygems.org platform.

Features

• Templating system^[3]
• Multilingual websites
• Multisite management
• User access control^[3]
• Fulltext search engine
• Contact forms^[3]
• Downloadable attachments
• Image processing
• Extendable Through Rails engines^[3]
• Template caching^[3]
• Admin interface for resource controllers^[3]