Comfortable Mexican Sofa
Better knownA database-backed CMS you mount into an existing Rails app
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "comfortable_mexican_sofa"Comfortable Mexican Sofa vs Locomotivecms
Comfortable Mexican Sofa 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.
A platform to create, publish and edit sites
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "locomotivecms"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.
- 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…
Side by side
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| Comfortable Mexican Sofa | Locomotivecms | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Content | Content |
| Replaces (differs) | Contentful, Ghost | — |
| License (differs) | MIT | — |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 2500 | 2323 |
| Gem (differs) | comfortable_mexican_sofa | locomotivecms |
| Mounts at (differs) | / | — |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Both replace
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Only Comfortable Mexican Sofa
Only Locomotivecms
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Questions
- What is the difference between Comfortable Mexican Sofa and Locomotivecms?
- Comfortable Mexican Sofa and Locomotivecms both sit in content, but they solve different parts of it.
- Can I mount both Comfortable Mexican Sofa 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.