Typus: Effortless admin interface for your Rails application

Typus is designed for a single activity:

Trusted users editing structured content.

Typus doesn’t try to be all the things to all the people but it’s extensible enough to match lots of use cases.

• Project site and documentation intraducibles.com/projects/typus

• Screenshoots intraducibles.com/projects/typus/screenshots

• Plugin source github.com/fesplugas/typus/tree

• Google Group groups.google.es/group/typus

For the impatients: Demo in 3 steps

Step 1: Create a Rails application using a template.

$ rails example.com -m http://intraducibles.com/projects/typus/demo.txt

Step 2: Start the server:

$ cd example.com && script/server

Step 3: Go to the admin area and enjoy it!

http://0.0.0.0:3000/admin

Installing

Plugin: Install from GitHub the latest version which it’s compatible with Rails 2.3.2.

$ script/plugin install git://github.com/fesplugas/typus.git

Gem: Add Typus to your config/environment.rb.

config.gem 'fesplugas-typus', :lib => 'typus', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'

Once Typus is installed, run the generator to create required files and migrate your database. (typus_users table is created)

$ script/generate typus
$ rake db:migrate

To create the first user, start the application server, go to 0.0.0.0:3000/admin and follow the instructions.

Support Typus

Typus is licensed under the MIT license. As an experiment we encourage you to support this project by donating 90 euros if you are a developer or studio. Donations do allow us to spend more time working and supporting the project. All contributions are much appreciated!

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Contribute your patches to the community & support people on the mailing list.

Tell everybody about Typus, tell your friends and colleagues about Typus and blog about Typus.

Contributors

• Laia Gargallo (Lover and tea provider) azotacalles.net

• Isaac Feliu (Codereview on first public release) www.vesne.com

• Lluis Folch (Icons, feedback & crazy ideas) wet-floor.com

• Sergio Espeja (Code) github.com/spejman

• Eadz (Code) github.com/eadz

• Anthony Underwood (Code) github.com/aunderwo

• Felipe Talavera (Code) github.com/flype

• Erik Tigerholm (Code) github.com/eriktigerholm

• George Guimarães (Portuguese translation and code) github.com/georgeguimaraes

• José Valim (Code) github.com/josevalim

• Luqman Amjad (Code) github.com/snake

• Alexey Noskov (Russian translation and code) github.com/alno

Acknowledgments

• Typus uses “Paginator” by Bruce Williams codefluency.com.

• Typus has been inspired by “Django Admin” www.djangoproject.com.

Copyright © 2007-2009 Francesc Esplugas Marti, released under the MIT license