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
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.
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.
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.
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:
ButterCMS is an API-based headless CMS. We're a hosted service and we maintain all the infrastructure. We play nicely with an expanding list of leading technologies, including:
No database required! We're a SaaS CMS or CaaS. You simply call our Content API from your app. We host and maintain all of the CMS infrastructure.
Do you host my templates?
Unlike CMSs you might be used to, we don't control or host any of your templates. The design of your app (HTML + CSS) lives in your application along side the rest of your app. Your application calls our Content API and we return your content in JSON format. You can then render this content in any way you'd like.
Can I import my content?
Yep. To import existing content from another platform, simply send us an email.
How do you compare to WordPress?
In short, we offer all the same easy-to-use editing capabilities of WordPress but are significantly easier for developers to setup and maintain. This means you spend less time working on your CMS and more time focusing on things important to your business.
Can I self host Butter?
No, we're a SaaS CMS or CaaS. You simply call our Content API from your app. We host and maintain all of the CMS infrastructure.
For more information on how we compare to a traditional CMS, check out API-based CMS vs Traditional CMS on the Butter blog. Do you have more questions? Read our FAQ below, or feel free to chat with us directly.
