Turn any Rails app into a CMS with a visual drag-and-drop page editor
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "active_canvas"
# config/routes.rb
mount ActiveCanvas::Engine, at: "/canvas"ActiveCanvas vs High Voltage
ActiveCanvas and High Voltage both sit in content, but they solve different parts of it.
Thin comparison — they do not replace the same product. Kept readable, left out of search.
High Voltage
Better knownEasily include static pages in your Rails app
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "high_voltage"What ActiveCanvas does
A mountable CMS with a visual editor, so marketing can build pages without a second application in front of them. A drag-and-drop page builder powered by GrapesJS AI-assisted content generation Tailwind CSS compiled for the pages you build Media management, page versioning and SEO controls An admin interface that works out of the box The path is yours: /pages , /cms , /blog , or / if you want it to own the marketing site. Put a catch-all mount last so it does not swallow your app's routes. A headless…
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Why you might pick it
- It also replaces Ghost, Contentful, and WordPress.
What High Voltage does
Easily include static pages in your Rails app. Write your static pages and put them in the RAILS ROOT/app/views/pages directory. You need authentication around the pages to make sure a user is signed in. You need to render different layouts for different pages. You need to render a partial from the app/views/pages directory. You need to use your own Page resource and would like to use StaticPage resource for high voltage 3239 stars on GitHub · MIT licensed · maintained by thoughtbot. Source: <https://github.com/thoughtbot/high voltage
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Why you might pick it
- It has substantially more adoption — 3,239 stars against 210.
Side by side
Rows where the two differ are marked.
| ActiveCanvas | High Voltage | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Content | Content |
| Replaces (differs) | Contentful, Ghost, WordPress | — |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 210 | 3239 |
| Gem (differs) | active_canvas | high_voltage |
| Mounts at (differs) | /canvas | — |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Both replace
Nothing unique here.
Only ActiveCanvas
Only High Voltage
Nothing unique here.
Questions
- What is the difference between ActiveCanvas and High Voltage?
- ActiveCanvas and High Voltage both sit in content, but they solve different parts of it.
- Can I mount both ActiveCanvas and High Voltage in the same Rails app?
- Technically yes — engines mount at different paths — but they overlap, so running both usually means two sets of tables doing one job. Pick one.