mbajurMay 29, 2025

To all #ruby and #rubyonrails folks: I recently forked ComfrotableMexicanSofa CMS and fully moved it to #turbo and all other goodies to be able to use it for my personal portfolio website. I'm planning a lot of features and improvements (including ActivityPub support) so stay tuned for more!

I'm gonna name it Comfy CMS and you can follow it here: https://github.com/mbajur/comfy

Let me know if you have any questions or ideas!

GitHub - mbajur/comfy: Comfortable Media Surfer is a powerful Ruby on Rails 7.0+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine

Comfortable Media Surfer is a powerful Ruby on Rails 7.0+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine - mbajur/comfy

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Show threadalexanderadamMay 30, 2025
@mbajur ComfortableMexicanSofa never convinced me and I always returned to @alchemy_cms to be honest 😂
Show threadmbajurMay 30, 2025
@alexanderadam yeah i know what you mean, for me though is that i always come back from alchemy to plain rails 😅 i gave cmsofa a proper try recently and discovered it’s actually a super capable yet simple tool that deserves some modern touch like turbo, importmaps etc
Show threadalexanderadamMay 30, 2025

@mbajur my problem is that the #Rails ecosystem already has a lot of simple #CMS.
#AlchemyCMS has features that my customers know from other professional CMS and therefore expect them to be included as well.

However, a #hotwire revamp for #alchemy would be pretty cool as well as the backend is functional but #hotwirejs would clearly be a modern addition.
Or a migration to #ActiveStorage from #dragonfly.

Show threadmbajurMay 30, 2025
@alexanderadam for a professional grade solutions, Alchemy is probably a way to go. For people with programming skills that juts wants to run a simple website - i don't think there is any better option than cmsofa. My personal requirements forces me to implement a lot of very specific backend features for my website (a photography portfolio with AP integration) and hacking around Alchemy would be just too much struggle for me :)
Show threadmbajurMay 30, 2025
@alexanderadam oh, and Alchemy could definitely use some refactoring and redesign but from what i recall - I didn't liked how author approached a guy who was proposing some really good redesign changes when they did a major redesign couple of years ago. No previous nor current design fits me well sadly which always pushes me off that project...not that cmsofa is better in this regard haha
Show threadalexanderadamJun 4, 2025

@mbajur really?
I'm curious about that because I only had helpful and productive exchanges with @tvdeyen so far.

However, in the projects of my customers, I always simply overwrote the CSS so that it matched the corporate design of my customers anyway to give it a professional touch.

Show threadmbajur
@alexanderadam it was so long ago that i can't even properly remember that and if that's even how it went exactly back then. Anyway, just to make it clear - i have absolutely nothing against Alchemy, i think it's a great project with some super interesting solutions. It's just too big and complex for my simple needs ;) But if i were about to create a big website for someone, i would probably go with Alchemy
Jun 4, 2025 at 11:18amWeb