The Rails blogging engine formerly known as Typo
Publify is a modern, comprehensive, extensible, full featured publishing platform composed of a blogging engine and a mini message system connected to Twitter. Publify has been around since 2004 ans is the oldest Ruby on Rails open source project alive.
Publify provides you with everything you need to easily publish content on the Web.
A nice, user friendly blogging platform providing an incredible writing experience
Multi user: role based management for multiple author websites.
Powerful plugin engine: available both in page, as text filters and as widgets.
Comprehensive theme support: every aspect of the blog can be redesigned according to your needs without changing a single line of the core engine.
Cool API: Publify supports various blogging engine APIs so you can publish from desktop clients.
On demand syntax: Publify supports various syntax (plain HTML, Markdown, Textile)
Multilingual: Publify is (more or less) translated in English, French, German, Danish, Norvegian, Japanese, Hebrew, Simplified Chinese, Mexicain Spanish, Italian, Lituanese, Dutch, Polish, Romanian…
If you want to give Publify a try, check out our full featured demo
The login / password to the admin are:
- Administrator: admin / admin
- Publisher: publish / publish
The demo is reset every 2 hours.
If you want to play it safe, you can download the latest stable release.
If you feel adventurous or want to hack on Publify, clone Publify repository.
To install Publify you need the following:
- Ruby 1.9.3 or 2.0
- Ruby On Rails 3.2.16
- A database engine, MySQL, PgSQL or SQLite3
- Unzip Publify archive
- Rename database.yml.yourEngine as database.yml
- Edit database.yml to add your database name, login and password.
$ bundle install
$ rake db:create
$ rake db:migrate
$ rake db:seed
$ ./script/rails server
You can now launch you browser and access to 127.0.0.1:3000.
In order to install Publify on Heroku, you’ll need to do some minor tweaks.
Just add the Heroku Postgres plugin to your app. When deploying, Heroku will write the database configuration so you don’t have to do anything.
You need to setup Amazon s3 storage to be able to upload files on your blog. Set heroku config vars.
$ heroku config:set provider=AWS \
aws_access_key_id=YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID \
aws_secret_access_key=YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY \
aws_bucket=YOUR_AWS_BUCKET_NAME
Replace the default Gemfile by Gemfile.heroku :
cp Gemfile Gemfile.heroku.
Heroku may also need the Ruby version to be declared. You may add
ruby "1.9.3" after the source to use the latest Ruby version.
Heroku will also boot your app on Webrick, the default Ruby web server, which is rather slow. Just add thin to get some free speed.
Now, run
bundle install
Heroku needs Gemfile.lock to be in the Git repository. Remove
Gemfile.lock from .gitignore and add it git add .gitignore Gemfile.lock
- Download Publify source code
- Report a bug
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Official Publify blog
- Follow us on Twitter
If you need help or want to contribute to Publify, you should start with the following:
- IRC: #publify on irc.freenode.net
This is a list of Publify maintainers. If you have committed, please add your name and contact details to the list.
Frédéric de Villamil frederic@publify.co 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
Yannick François blog: http://elsif.fr irc: yaf
And many more cool people who’ve one day or another contributed to Publify.
Original Author: Tobias Luetke blog: http://blog.leetsoft.com/ irc: xal
Enjoy, The Publify team