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ActiveCanvas

Turn any Rails app into a CMS with a visual drag-and-drop page editor

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active_canvas
Repository
giovapanasiti/active_canvas
License
MIT
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Added
August 01, 2026
ActiveCanvas mounted at /canvas
ActiveCanvas mounted at /canvas

About

A mountable CMS with a visual editor, so marketing can build pages without a second
application in front of them.

What you get

  • 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

Mounting it

ruby
# Gemfile
gem "active_canvas"
rails generate active_canvas:install
ruby
# config/routes.rb
mount ActiveCanvas::Engine => "/canvas"

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.

Why this beats the headless CMS

A headless CMS makes every page a network call to somebody else's API, and your
content is only as available as their uptime. Mounted, a page is a database row.

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