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+## What is Typus?
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+A few years ago I developed websites using [Movable Type](http://movabletype.org/), [Drupal](http://drupal.com), [TextPattern](http://textpattern.com/) and [b2](http://b2evolution.net/), which later became [Wordpress](http://wordpress.org/). I decided to stop using all those content management systems and started to develop web applications with [Ruby on Rails](http://rubyonrails.org/).
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+Inspired by the tools I used, and with a simple idea "Trusted users editing structured content", I started to develop a [Rails](http://rubyonrails.org/) application to manage the sites I was building. This was the first attempt to make a simple but powerful content management system. I adapted that application to many projects, but I decided to extract the core functionality as a plugin which is now known a **Typus**.
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+![Typus: Dashboard](http://media.intraducibles.com/assets/typus-screenshots-step2.png "Typus: Dashboard")
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+On December 2007, **Typus** was released under a [MIT License](/projects/typus/mit-license). A lot of feedback, ideas, contributions & donations are making the plugin better everyday.
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+### Typus Key Features
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+- Access control by users and roles.
+- CRUD and custom actions for your models on a clean interface.
+- Internationalized interface.
+- Extensible and overwritable templates.
+- Low memory footprint.
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+## Impatients to see it working?
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+A demo is running at [Heroku](http://typus.heroku.com/). Use the following credentials to log in.
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+    Email: [email protected]
+    Password: columbia
+
+## Want to quickly create an application on your development machine?
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+Note that Git & Rails are required to make the application work.
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+**Step 1: Create a Rails application using a template.**
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+    $ rails example.com -m http://gist.github.com/86613.txt
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+**Step 2: Start the server.**
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+    $ cd example.com && script/server
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+**Step 3: Go to the admin area.**
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+    http://0.0.0.0:3000/admin