I know many Ruby users are using Jekyll but I wonder what the benefits that will bring over RefineryCMS?
Could someone highlights the differences and pros/cons for each.
I'm one of the core developers on Refinery CMS.
The architecture of each project is vastly different. Here's a few things Refinery CMS has:
- Web based interface (just go to /refinery to login and edit content)
- Visual content editing (but also supports editing in plain HTML)
- Stores it's content in a database (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL - your choice)
- Suitable for non technical people to edit
- Supports Rails 3
- Supports localisation in 11 languages (and you can add your own)
- Support and docs: IRC, Google Group, Tutorials, API docs, Github repository
I can't be authoritative about Jekyll (maybe mojombo can answer) but it looks like:
- Static content editing
- Stores it's content in files
- Developer focused, not suitable for an end user to edit
- Markup based editing
- Will load slightly faster as the pages are static
I hope that helps weigh it up. It all comes down to your project requirements.