Random Hacks

Moving a blog to Typo

Posted by Eric Kidd Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:13:00 GMT

This weekend, I moved Random Hacks to Typo, a nifty Rails-based blogging system. Here’s what I did:

• Set up my Mac for Rails development
• Pointed Typo at MySQL
• Created a custom theme
• Wrote an article importer
• Routed my old URLs to new locations
• Wrote some custom sidebars
• Configured Debian’s mod_fcgid

Now for the gruesome details.

Tags Rails, Ruby, Typo

Typo sidebars: Recent Comments and Tagged Articles

Posted by Eric Kidd Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:04:00 GMT

Here's two new plugins for Typo, the cool Rails-based blogging software. The first shows a list of recent comments. The second shows articles with a specific tag. (I use it to implement the "Recommended Reading" list in my sidebar.)

To install the plugins, simply unzip them in your Typo root directory, restart Typo, and take a look at the "Sidebar" tab in the admin screen.

These plugins were unbelievably simple to write. If you'd like to see how they work, keep reading.

Tags Hacks, Rails, Typo | 4 comments