Publify
Publify is a Ruby on Rails-based open source blogging and web publishing platform with IndieWeb principles, supporting multi-user blogs, short messages, and Twitter integration.
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A classic Rails blogging platform with IndieWeb features, multi-user support, and Twitter integration.
Core Features
- Multi-user blog engine with articles, pages, categories and tags
- Short messages (like Twitter) with automatic cross-posting to Twitter
- Text filters: Markdown, SmartyPants, @mention and #hashtag links
- Pluggable widgets and plugin system, custom themes
- Advanced SEO (custom URLs, meta descriptions, etc.)
What It Can't Do
- •Only supports Ruby 2.5–2.7 and Rails 5.2 – not compatible with Ruby 3.x; master branch may break; ImageMagick must be installed for image processing.
Use Cases
- Personal or team blog/news site
- Personal homepage with microblogging and social syndication
- Learning or extending a Rails-based CMS
Publify is a full-featured web publishing software built on Ruby on Rails. Originally known as Typo (since 2004), it is one of the oldest surviving Rails open source projects. It follows IndieWeb principles: self-host your site, publish on your own domain, and syndicate everywhere. Key features include a classic multi-user blogging engine, short messages with Twitter sync, Markdown and text filters, customizable widgets and plugins, themes, advanced SEO, and multilingual support (English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, etc.). It uses MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite and requires Ruby 2.5–2.7. The project is actively maintained with a stable release available.
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Rename database.yml.yourEngine to database.yml and edit database credentials
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- Download the latest stable release from https://github.com/publify/publify/releases/latest
- Rename database.yml.yourEngine to database.yml and edit database credentials
- Run bundle install
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