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 Locomotivecms
ActiveCanvas and Locomotivecms 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.
Locomotivecms
Better knownA platform to create, publish and edit sites
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "locomotivecms"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.
- Its licence is MIT, which may matter more than the feature list.
What Locomotivecms does
A platform to create, publish and edit sites Locomotive is an open source platform to create, publish and edit sites (CMS). It is designed to save time and help you focus on what matters: front-end technology, standard development process and a very low learning curve for your clients. Multi-sites natively supported Uses Liquid, a simple and clean templating language Easy to add custom sections, content types, no SQL needed Beautiful and intuitive editing interface Can fully localize all the content and pages Embed a Restful API to manage every site…
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Why you might pick it
- It has substantially more adoption — 2,323 stars against 210.
Side by side
Rows where the two differ are marked.
| ActiveCanvas | Locomotivecms | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Content | Content |
| Replaces (differs) | Contentful, Ghost, WordPress | — |
| License (differs) | MIT | — |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 210 | 2323 |
| Gem (differs) | active_canvas | locomotivecms |
| Mounts at (differs) | /canvas | — |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Both replace
Nothing unique here.
Only ActiveCanvas
Only Locomotivecms
Nothing unique here.
Questions
- What is the difference between ActiveCanvas and Locomotivecms?
- ActiveCanvas and Locomotivecms both sit in content, but they solve different parts of it.
- Can I mount both ActiveCanvas and Locomotivecms 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.