Proposal #8: Alchemy CMS

[robinboening]

Alchemy is a Content Management System, built with Rails. It started with the beginning of Rails 2 and the software is constantly maintained. The latest version is running with Rails 4.

There are other CMS out there, also better known projects, but Alchemy is different from the others and that is the point that makes it so unique and good. The amount of users around the project is growing, but it has a great potential to grow much more.

I would be happy to mentor the students who are interested in working on Alchemy.

Here are the goals I would love to propose:

• Understanding the concepts and details of Ruby, Rails and Alchemy
• Improving the documentation of Alchemy
• Pick one (or more) of the open features from the list and work on it test-driven.
• Fun with working on open source

Resources:
https://github.com/magiclabs/alchemy_cms
http://guides.alchemy-cms.com
http://alchemy-cms.com

[FloorD]

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[svenfuchs]

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[anuvazhayil]

This seems to be a good project for me and would like to work on it. I have already paired up with Archana K C from the same region as mine.
Thanks

[archana77archana]

This project seems to be good for me too. Even I would love to work on this with Anu.

[avetiul]

Hi Robin, my pair and I would be interested to work on this project. I have sent you a pm message on Magiclabs email.

[helenemartin]

Very interesting project. How does it compare to Comfortable Mexican? I would consider applying for his one.

[robinboening]

Thanks to all of you that consider working on the alchemy project during rgsoc.

@helenemartin the comfy project takes another approach than alchemy does. I don't want to talk it down, but it's exactly what we call a "page model body column" cms. That means it has a body column with a wysiwyg editor which is for managing all the content. The concept alchemy comes along is different. The website editors should never be able to have one big editor for a page. The website's content is split into many different elements wich again are split into the smallest parts of alchemy, the so called essences. This is very flexible and also very comfortable and layout-safe to manage by the editor.

You might want to have a look into the demo.
http://alchemy-cms.com/demo
There you can see pages holding elements that contain the content via the essences.

You can also have a look at the guides or the website for more explanations of the concepts and more details. http://guides.alchemy-cms.com

If you have more questions don't hesitate to ask :)

Thanks and cheers
Robin