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¶ ↑

• Authentication by session or http.

• Access control by users and roles (only on session authentication).

• Show, search, edit and create data on a clean interface.

• Internationalized interface with xtensible and overwritable templates.

• Boolean filtering.

• Supports ActiveRecord.

• Supports Rails 3 and is Ruby 1.9 compatible.

• Tested with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

• MIT License.

Links¶ ↑

• Project page

• Documentation

• Plugin source code

• Mailing list

• Bug reports

• Gems

• Contributors

Installing¶ ↑

Install from GitHub the latest version which it’s compatible with Rails 2.3.8.

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

Once ‘typus` is installed, run the generator to create required files and migrate your database.

$ script/generate typus
$ rake db:migrate

Start the application server and go to 0.0.0.0:3000/admin.

License¶ ↑

Copyright © 2007-2010 Francesc Esplugas, released under the MIT license.