About Typo

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

Enhance your Typo blog

• Themes Catalogue
• Sidebar Plugins
• In page Plugins

Useful Links:

• Download Typo source code:
• Report a bug
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Official Typo blog
• Follow us on Twitter

Get some help

• 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.

The Cool Kids

Frédéric de Villamil <[email protected]>
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

Original Author

Tobias Luetke
blog: http://blog.leetsoft.com/
irc: xal

Installing Typo

There are various way of installing Typo, but the easiest way is certainly using the gem.

1. Prerequisites

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

2. Get Typo

Download Typo stable version at http://typosphere.org/stable.tar.gz or http://typosphere.org/stable.zip.

3. Install Typo

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

4. Start / stop Typo

To use / test typo, run:

./script/rails server

Daily use

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