Typus: Admin interface for Rails applications

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.

Key Features

• Access control by users and roles.
• CRUD and custom actions for your models on a clean interface.
• Internationalized.
• Extensible and overwritable templates.
• Low memory footprint.
• Released under the MIT License.

Links

• Project site and documentation
• Plugin source
• Mailing list
• Bug reports
• Gems

Impatients to see it working?

Step 1: Create a Rails application using a template.

$ rails example.com -m http://tr.im/typus_example

Step 2: Start the server.

$ cd example.com && script/server

Step 3: Go to the admin area (http://0.0.0.0:3000/admin) and enjoy it!

Want to see a demo working?

Demo application is hosted at Heroku (http://typus.heroku.com/).

Use the following credentials to log in.

Email: userdemo@intraducibles.com
Password: userdemo

Installing

Install from GitHub the latest version which it's compatible with Rails 2.3.4.

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

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 http://0.0.0.0:3000/admin and follow the instructions.

Support

As an experiment we encourage you to support this project by donating 90 € if you are a developer or studio. Donations do allow us to spend more time working and supporting the project.

License

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