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 Spina CMS
Both replace Contentful. Comfortable Mexican Sofa is the better-known of the two (2,500 stars), while Spina CMS also stands in for WordPress.
A clean, distraction-free CMS mounted into an existing Rails app
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "spina"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.
What Spina CMS does
Spina is a CMS with a deliberately quiet editing interface, built as a Rails engine. Page structures you define, with typed content parts Multiple themes and multiple languages Media library An editor interface that non-developers do not need training for The admin lives at /admin and the front end is rendered by your own views.
Read the full Spina CMS listing →
Why you might pick it
- It also replaces WordPress.
Side by side
Rows where the two differ are marked.
| Comfortable Mexican Sofa | Spina CMS | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Content | Content |
| Replaces (differs) | Contentful, Ghost | Contentful, WordPress |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 2500 | 2300 |
| Gem (differs) | comfortable_mexican_sofa | spina |
| Mounts at (differs) | / | /admin |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Questions
- What is the difference between Comfortable Mexican Sofa and Spina CMS?
- Both replace Contentful. Comfortable Mexican Sofa is the better-known of the two (2,500 stars), while Spina CMS also stands in for WordPress.
- Can I mount both Comfortable Mexican Sofa and Spina CMS 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.
- Do Comfortable Mexican Sofa and Spina CMS replace the same SaaS product?
- Both are listed as replacements for Contentful.