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Publify

Content Management Systems (CMS)

About this project

The Ruby on Rails publishing software formerly known as Typo

Build status Code Climate Reviewed by Hound

What's Publify?

Publify is a simple but full featured web publishing software. It's built around a blogging engine and a small message system connected to Twitter.

Publify follows the principles of the IndieWeb, which are self hosting your Web site, and Publish On your Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere.

Publify has been around since 2004 and is the oldest Ruby on Rails open source project alive.

Features

  • A classic multi user blogging engine
  • Short messages with a Twitter connection
  • Text filters (Markdown, SmartyPants, @mention to link, #hashtag to link)
  • A widgets system and a plugin API
  • Custom themes
  • Advanced SEO capabilities
  • Multilingual : Publify is (more or less) translated in English, French, German, Danish, Norwegian, Japanese, Hebrew, Simplified Chinese, Mexican Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian…

Demo site

You can give Publify a try at the demo site.

The demo is reset every hour.

Install

Download

You can download the latest Publify stable release.

If you want to run the master branch, you can clone the Publify repository. However, random things may be broken there at any time, so tread carefully!

Running the master branch in production is not recommended!

Install Publify locally

To install Publify you need the following:

  • CRuby (MRI) 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7
  • Ruby on Rails 5.2.x
  • A database engine, MySQL, PgSQL or SQLite3
  • A compatible JavaScript installation for asset compilation. See the execjs readme for details.
  • ImageMagick (used by mini_magick).
  1. Unzip Publify archive
  2. Rename database.yml.yourEngine as database.yml
  3. Edit database.yml to add your database name, login and password.
$ bundle install
$ rake db:setup
$ rake db:migrate
$ rake db:seed
$ rake assets:precompile
$ rails server

You can now launch you browser and access 127.0.0.1:3000.

Install Publify on a server

You can use your preferred installation method (e.g., Capistrano) to install Publify on a server. You will also need to set up the environment so it contains at least SECRET_KEY_BASE. Your web server may allow you to set this, or you can consider using a tool like dotenv.

Install Publify on Heroku

In order to install Publify on Heroku, you’ll need to do some minor tweaks.

First of all, you need to set up Amazon S3 storage to be able to uplo

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