# Any plans on making Typo into an Engine?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plans-on-making-typo-into-an-engine/47851>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 14, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plans-on-making-typo-into-an-engine/47851 "2005-11-14T16:29:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plans-on-making-typo-into-an-engine/47851/1 "2005-11-14T16:29:09Z")

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I really like Typo but I’d hate to mix all of its files with my own  
application. I think an Engine would be really nice. Anyone working on  
this  
or heard anything about it? I’d do it myself if I had more knowledge of  
Ruby, Rails and Engines 😛

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**Author:** ![i8ramin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e36b37/32.png) [@i8ramin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/i8ramin)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plans-on-making-typo-into-an-engine/47851/2 "2005-11-14T16:38:09Z")

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Duane J. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) is doing this, but you’ll need  
to be very, very careful: Typo is a full application in its own right,  
and wasn’t designed with the view to having it interact with other  
parts of an application. That’s not to say you wouldn’t be successful

- it is _definitely_ possible - you’ll probably just have to put a lot  
of work into it to really get what you’re after, which might not be  
ideal for someone who isn’t comfortable getting all freaky with  
esoteric aspects of Rails and Engines.

It will be interesting to see how Duane gets on (I’m confident he’ll  
certainly get it working for his own purposes), but for the moment I  
wouldn’t hold you breath about getting any kind of ‘drop-in blog  
component’ (whoa there, Rails list!). If you’re not feeling too  
confident about Rails & Ruby, why not download Typo, get it running on  
your own machine and then tinker around with it and see how it works?  
You might find that you don’t need everything that it has, and the  
experience you gain might help you writing something designed to work  
with the applications you want to develop.

- james (throwing the meaty bone of peace out to the hysterial masses,  
lol)

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**Author:** ![i8ramin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e36b37/32.png) [@i8ramin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/i8ramin)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plans-on-making-typo-into-an-engine/47851/3 "2005-11-14T17:14:17Z")

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Good advice. I actually did download typo and played around with a bit.  
I  
tried to incorporate my own functionality into it slowly, but realized  
that  
I was making a huge mess. And every time a new version of Typo would  
come  
out, it was extremely difficult for me to upgrade it. That is why I  
think an  
Engine would be really nice. If only to allow us to play around with  
typo,  
modify it and not touch the original code. I guess i’ll wait and see  
what  
Duane comes up with. Meanwhile, I’ll keep playing with the current  
version  
and try to learn as much about it as I can. Thanks for the tips =]