Casein is an open source CMS for Ruby on Rails, originally developed by Spoiled Milk.

It provides scaffolding generators and helper functions to quickly create a lightweight CRUD interface for your data, along with a pre-rolled user authentication system.

Casein is designed to be completely decoupled from the front-end. Therefore it may be added to new or existing Rails projects, or even used as a standalone CMS to drive platforms built on other technologies.

→ Casein on GitHub

(Download or fork the source, and browse documentation)

Features

• Quick start

  Generate a modern and minimal CRUD interface for your data using the supplied Rails generators.

• Powerful customisation

  The generated views and controller logic can be infinitely customised as required. Casein comes with a range of helper functions to get you started.

• User management

  User authentication and basic management to support developers and clients is pre-rolled and ready to go.

Get involved

While the central mission of Casein is to provide developers with a basic CMS platform and the freedom to customise as required, we do have ideas of future features that may find their way into the project core.

If you're using Casein and are working to add additional functionality then let us know.

In the meantime, this is our current roadmap:

• Media uploader/picker widget
• Active scaffolding version
• Content versioning
• Native support for has_many relationships
• Full namespacing of the controllers
• Built-in support for list sorting
• Slugs—human-readable URLs

Built with Casein

Here are some example websites and applications running on Casein. Do you have a project built with Casein? Let us know and we will add it to the list.

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  PopScan

  Multi-lingual website with many different functionalities implemented. Developed by Spoiled Milk.
  
  → www.popscan.com

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  Sound Development

  Web application in Flash for an art-promoting organization. Developed by Spoiled Milk.
  
  
  → www.sound-development.com

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  Stress

  Website for Swiss music sensation with various media management. Developed by Spoiled Milk.
  
  
  → www.stressmusic.com

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  Martin Straka

  Portfolio website for sound designer Martin Straka. Developed by Pixelate.
  
  → www.martinstraka.de

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  McSweeney's iPhone app

  A subscription-based app delivering stories, films, interviews and comics is driven by a Casein server platform. Developed by Russell Quinn.
  
  → iphone.mcsweeneys.net

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  Mr. Bounce iPhone game

  Online hall of fame backend for Mr. Bounce iPhone game managed with Casein. Developed by Pixelate.
  
  → www.pixelate.de/games/mr-bounce-iphone/

"Casein" and the Casein logo are © Spoiled Milk. All rights reserved.

The Casein open source project is sponsored by Spoiled Milk and maintained by Russell Quinn.
Casein is available to use under the terms of the MIT License.