A database-backed CMS you mount into an existing Rails app
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gem "comfortable_mexican_sofa"Comfortable Mexican Sofa vs High Voltage
Comfortable Mexican Sofa 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
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gem "high_voltage"What Comfortable Mexican Sofa does
A CMS that mounts into a Rails app rather than replacing it. Marketing edits pages; you keep one deployment. Sites, layouts, pages and reusable snippets Typed content fragments — text, rich text, file, date, boolean An admin UI for editors Multiple sites and locales from one install The catch-all CMS route must come last, or it will swallow your app's routes.
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Why you might pick it
- It also replaces Ghost and Contentful.
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
Side by side
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| Comfortable Mexican Sofa | High Voltage | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Content | Content |
| Replaces (differs) | Contentful, Ghost | — |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 2500 | 3239 |
| Gem (differs) | comfortable_mexican_sofa | high_voltage |
| Mounts at (differs) | / | — |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Both replace
Nothing unique here.
Only Comfortable Mexican Sofa
Only High Voltage
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Questions
- What is the difference between Comfortable Mexican Sofa and High Voltage?
- Comfortable Mexican Sofa and High Voltage both sit in content, but they solve different parts of it.
- Can I mount both Comfortable Mexican Sofa 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.