Installing Typo
Typo is a blogging application written in Ruby on Rails. Here is how to install it (using MySQL as the back-end database):
Get MySQL working, make sure you have MySQL header files and client libraries.
Install the typo gem. Apple put MySQL headers and libraries in /usr/include/mysql and /usr/lib/mysql which is not what the typo gem expects (/usr/local/mysql/{include,lib}). It is therefore necessary to point the installer in the right direction, which we do by getting it to use the mysql_config program:
sudo gem install typo – –with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config
Create a MySQL user, (e.g. sams_blog) that has privileges to create two databases: one for your blog, and one that has the same name with _test appended to it, e.g. sams_blog and sams_blog_test.
typo install /path/to/your/blog db_user=sams_blog db_name=sams_blog db_host=localhost db_password=<password>
Typo sets up the database, and starts a webserver running on port 4869. Navigate to that page and create the first user (this will be an admin user). At this point I stopped that server (using: typo stop /path/to/blog) and configured mod_rails to run it instead.