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 5.5 for Ruby on Rails 2.3.8.

Useful Links:

• Download Typo 5.5 source code:
• Report a bug
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Official Typo blog
• Plugin directory
• Typo themes
• 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 <frederic@de-villamil.com>
blog: http://t37.net
irc: neuro`

Matijs van Zuijlen
blog: http://www.matijs.net/blog/
irc: matijs

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 our gem.

1. Prerequisites

To install Typo you need the following:

• Ruby 1.8.7 or Ruby Enterprise Edition
• Ruby On Rails 2.3.8
• A database engine, MySQL, PgSQL or SQLite3
• The Ruby connector to your favourite database engine

2. Install the gem

If you have root access, just run:

  $ sudo gem install typo

Otherwise:

  $ export GEM_PATH=~/gems
  $ gem install -i ~/gems typo

3. Install Typo

Typo comes as a highly configurable binary installer. By default, it runs with Mongrel on a random port between 4000 and 5000 and SQLite3. However we recommend using a more production ready database engine and a faster, more scalable web server. MySQL and Passenger running either on Apache or Nginx are our favourite options.

To install Typo with the default options, just run:

  typo install /some/path

This will install typo with SQLite3 and will spawn it to some random port.

To chose your database engine and web server, run the following:

  typo install /some/path web-server=my_server database=my_db db_password=password db_user=my_app db_name=my_app some/path

Options for web-server are:

• mongrel
• mongrel_cluster
• external: Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd… with Fastcgi, mod_rails, Thin…

For more information about installing Typo from the gem, please read our installer documentation

4. Start / stop Typo

If you’re using mongrel or mongrel_cluster you’ll be able to start / stop your Typo engine using Typo binary:

  $ typo start some/path

  $ typo stop some/path

Daily use

Typo’s administrative interface is available at http://your.domain.com/admin. You can use this to post articles and change Typo’s configuration settings. For posting new content, you can either use this administrative web interface or a desktop blog editor like MarsEdit or Ecto. For a short list of clients which are confirmed to work please visit http://typosphere.org/wiki/DesktopClients.

Enjoy,
Your typo team