Intuitive admin interface
So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the content you build better with ButterCMS.
Handy integration with Rails
Our Rails CMS has a simple content API and drop-in Rails SDK that makes the magic happen in minutes, not hours.
A truly zero-maintenance solution
With ButterCMS, you’ll never worry about security upgrades, hosting, or performance again.
Powerful CMS for Rails. Zero headache.
Drop our API-based CMS into your Rails app in minutes.
ButterCMS provides a component-based CMS and content API for Rails and Rails apps. Use ButterCMS to enable dynamic content in your apps for page content, blogs, and anything else. Most customers get our Rails CMS set up in one hour or less.
That leaves plenty of time for you and your marketing team to do what you do best: create killer apps with killer content.
See how Butter’s API enables you to compose flexible page layouts and easily reorder components, without a developer.
“Best CMS on the market”
After shopping the market, it was clear that ButterCMS was the perfect choice. It allows our developers to build powerful components and makes it easy for our marketing team to drive a better customer experience. Hampton Catlin Creator of Sass and Haml
Deploy our Rails Starter in 30 seconds
Or follow the below commands to clone a copy of the repo from github, install dependencies, set your free Butter token, and run your local server on localhost:3000/.
# requires ruby 3.1.0
$ git clone https://github.com/ButterCMS/rails-starter-buttercms.git
$ cd rails-starter-buttercms
$ bundle install
$ echo 'RAILS_BUTTER_CMS_API_KEY=' >> .env
$ bundle exec rails s
Built to make content marketing easy
ButterCMS is the best headless cms for Rails for a simple reason: Rails developers can build solutions that marketing people love. Our API allows your content gurus to quickly spin up high-converting, dynamic landing pages, SEO pages, product marketing pages, and more, all using simple drag-and-drop functionality.
The simplest Rails CMS you'll find
Our simple setup saves you time and money. Take us for a spin to see for yourself!
It's the epitome of plug-and-play simplicity for content creators. It does exactly what I need it to. LUKE GARDNER, CONTENT SPECIALIST, PRINTAVO
Fast integration with any Rails app
Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing Rails app in minutes. It’s so simple! To demonstrate, here’s a mini tutorial to give you a feel for the process of adding marketing pages to your Rails app.
Of course, you can also use our Collections to do advanced content modeling. For a full integration guide, check out our Official Guide for the ButterCMS Rails API client.
See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your Rails app.
Seamless Rails components
Empower your marketing team with dynamic landing pages that align perfectly with your Rails components.
Components are the essential building blocks of any Rails app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease.
Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing Rails components and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.
One Rails CMS with everything you need
There’s a reason so many developers are choosing a headless Rails CMS. It’s easy to set up, offers flexible, customizable content modeling, and gives you access to our full Rails API.
ButterCMS saves you development time
Most customers get our Rails CMS up and running in less than an hour. Try it yourself!
Simple as can be, with powerful features and great customer support. DILLON BURNS, FRONT END DEVELOPER, KEYME
How to integrate ButterCMS into your Rails application
Just follow the simple steps below to complete the integration and begin creating pages with Butter. Be sure to check out our full guide to creating pages using the ButterCMS Rails API.
First you would set up a new Customer Case Study page type in Butter and create a page. With your page defined, the ButterCMS API will return it in JSON format like this:
{
"data": {
"slug": "acme-co",
"fields": {
"facebook_open_graph_title": "Acme Co loves ButterCMS",
"seo_title": "Acme Co Customer Case Study",
"headline": "Acme Co saved 200% on Anvil costs with ButterCMS",
"testimonial": "<p>We've been able to make anvils faster than ever before! - <em>Chief Anvil Maker</em></p>\r\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.buttercms.com/NiA3IIP3Ssurz5eNJ15a\" alt=\"\" caption=\"false\" width=\"249\" height=\"249\" /></p>",
"customer_logo": "https://cdn.buttercms.com/c8oSTGcwQDC5I58km5WV",
}
}
}
To create these pages in our app, we create a dynamic route that fetches content for the page by using a URL parameter. This is how the controllers/customers_controller.rb
file might look:
class CustomersController < ApplicationController
def show
slug = params[:slug]
@case_study = ButterCMS::Page.get('customer_case_study', slug).data.fields
end
end
Display the results in views/customers/show.html.erb
:
<html>
<head>
<title><%= @case_study.seo_title %></title>
<meta property="og:title" content="<%= @case_study.facebook_open_graph_title %>" />
</head>
<body>
<h1><%= @case_study.headline %></h1>
<img width="100%" src="<%= @case_study.customer_logo %>">
<p><%= @case_study.testimonial %></p>
</body>
</html></template>
That's it! If you browse to your homepage you'll see your homepage populated with the content you created in Butter.
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