State of the Modules

Overview

This page is intended to be a quick reference guide to the available modules you can add to BrowserCMS projects. It’s not an exhaustive list, so see ‘Finding more Modules’ below for ways to discover new modules as they are released.

In addition to listing some of the more frequently used modules, this page covers version compatiblity to make sure you can easily figure out if there is a version of the module you want available for your version of BrowserCMS.

Module List

In most cases, BrowserMedia is maintaining the modules listed below, though some notable exceptions are also listed.

Name	3.1	3.3	3.4	3.5	Priority	Notes
bcms_news	Y	Y	N	Y	H
bcms_google_mini_search	Y	Y	N	Y	H
bcms_blog	Y	Y	N	Y	M
bcms_content_rotator	Y	Y	N	Y	H
bcms_webdav	Y	N	N	N	M
bcms_polling	Y	N	N	N	M	Need to specify gemspec dependency
bcms_download	Y	N	N	N	M
bcms_settings	Y	Y	N	Y	H
bcms_seo_sitemap	Y	Y	N	Y	H
bcms_cas	Y	Y	N	Y	H
bcms_event_registration	Y	N	N	N	L
bcms_event	Y	Y	N	Y	H
bcms_rankings	Y	N	N	N	M
bcms_page_comments	Y	N	N	N	M
bcms_fckeditor	Y	Y	N	Y	M
bcms_kcfinder	N	N	N	N	M	Under development
bcms_content_syncing	Y	N	N	N	M
bcms_netforum	Y	N	N	N	M	Commercially licensed.
bcms_dated_content	Y	N	N	N	M	Under development. Needs to be released
bcms_feeds	Y	N	N	N	M	Not maintained by BrowserMedia
bcms_aws_s3	Y	N	N	Y	M

Table Legend

Priorities

• H – High – Somebody needs asap
• M – Medium – Used frequently. Needs to get done eventually
• L – Low – Rarely used. Candidate for deprecation

Versions of BrowserCMS

• 3.5 – Rails 3.2.x compatible
• 3.4 – Rails 3.1.x compatible
• 3.3 – Rails 3.0.x compatible
• 3.1 – Rails 2.3.x compatible

Finding more Modules

Besides the notable modules listed above, you can also look at Github and Rubygems to find modules.

• Modules on RubyGems – A search of RubyGems for all modules that might be for BrowserCMS.
• Modules on Github – A list of all github repositories which are ‘probably’ browsercms modules. These may be in various states of completeness.