Being around since March 2005, Typo is (probably) the oldest blogging platform in Rails. It has a full set of feature you would expect from such an engine, powerful SEO capabilities and full themes and plugin
extension. It is available as a gem or source tarball.
Current version is Typo 6.0.3 for Ruby on Rails 3.0
- Download Typo source code:
- Report a bug
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Official Typo blog
- Follow us on Twitter
- IRC: #typo on irc.freenode.net
- Mailing list
Maintainers
This is a list of Typo maintainers. If you have a commit bit, please add your name and contact details to the list.
Frédéric de Villamil <frederic@de-villamil.com>
blog: http://t37.net
irc: neuro`
Matijs van Zuijlen
blog: http://www.matijs.net/blog/
irc: matijs
Thomas Lecavelier
blog: http://blog.ookook.fr/
irc: ook
Cyril Mougel
blog: http://blog.shingara.fr
irc: shingara
Tobias Luetke
blog: http://blog.leetsoft.com/
irc: xal
There are various way of installing Typo, but the easiest way is certainly using the gem.
To install Typo you need the following:
- Ruby 1.8.7 or Ruby Enterprise Edition. You can use an existing Typo blog to Ruby 1.9 but not start one, initial migration currently failing.
- Ruby On Rails 3.0.0
- A database engine, MySQL, PgSQL or SQLite3
- The Ruby connector to your favorite database engine
- A FTP client or even better SSH access to your hosting provider
Download Typo stable version at http://typosphere.org/stable.tar.gz or http://typosphere.org/stable.zip.
Unpack Typo archive into your Web hosting space.
Rename database.yml.example to database.yml and fill in your database credentials for production mode.
Then run:
$ bundle install
$ rake RAILS_ENV=production db:migrate
To use / test typo, run:
./script/rails server
For daily use, we recommend using Passenger (mod_rails) or Thin / Unicorn with Apache or Nginx.
The admin interface for Typo allows you to post articles and change configuration settings. It can be found at http://yourdomain.com/admin. New content can be posting using the admin interface or a desktop blog editor such as MarsEdit or Ecto. For a list of working clients, please visit http://typosphere.org/wiki/DesktopClients
Enjoy,
The Typo team