Gutter Press is packed with features designed to make content creation and management a joy. Here’s what you get out of the box.

Rich Text Editing with Lexxy

At the heart of Gutter Press is Lexxy, a powerful WYSIWYG editor that makes content creation intuitive and beautiful.

Post Management

Gutter Press provides a complete content management workflow:

Draft & Publish

• Draft mode: Work on content privately before it’s ready
• Scheduled publishing: Set a future publish date
• Instant publish: Go live immediately

Organization

• Slugs: SEO-friendly URLs generated automatically
• Search: Full-text search across all content
• Pagination: Efficient handling of large content libraries

Active Storage Integration

Gutter Press leverages Rails Active Storage for robust media handling. Images are automatically processed into multiple sizes:

post.featured_image.variant(:thumb)   # 100x100
post.featured_image.variant(:medium)  # 500x500
post.featured_image.variant(:large)   # 1200x1200

Supported Formats

• Images: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF
• Documents: PDF (for download links)
• Storage: Local disk, Amazon S3, Google Cloud, Azure

Built-in Authentication

Gutter Press includes a complete authentication system out of the box:

• User registration - Sign up new users
• Session management - Secure login/logout
• Password reset - Email-based password recovery
• Session security - Automatic session expiration

Since you own the code, you can easily swap in Devise, Rodauth, or any other authentication system if you prefer.

Modern Rails Architecture

Gutter Press is a complete Rails 8 application with:

• Hotwire & Turbo - Fast, SPA-like experience
• Stimulus - Modest JavaScript sprinkles
• Importmaps - No build step required
• Solid Queue - Background job processing
• SQLite - Zero-config database (production ready!)

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  resources :posts
end