I've used refinery for one of my sites and it is fine - but mind you, it's a VERY basic site with VERY basic needs. This will boil down to more about what's th

I've used refinery for one of my sites and it is fine - but mind you, it's a VERY basic site with VERY basic needs. This will boil down to more about what's the right tool for the right job, and you've not given enough details to answer that question. A custom theme is DEFINITELY not a reason to switch. I would suggest that Refinery is great for very basic needs, but the ecosystem is nothing even close to what WordPress has to offer. Refinery is well written - and great code to review if you're learning rails as described. You can find many more rails apps from which to learn too. You'll need to search HN for CMS && Rails - just a day or two ago I saw something related to a new rails CMS but didn't follow it. In your exploratory phase, it might be worth reviewing - as I went to their home page and read briefly about the solution and it "sounded" good. EDIT: Here's the one I read about a few days ago to save you the search: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189943 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189943