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Amethyst is an open source, ruby on rails based blog application. It is customizable, user-friendly, and very simple to use. Whether your like to write technical articles, personal babblings, or any sort of notable thought, Amethyst can organize it for you!




 Customizable Themes(coming soon)
 Protected admin area to manage your blog securely
 Tagging Support
 Post Archivhing
 Easy to use TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor, no HTML experience necessary!
 Image Uploads for posting/storing images in your blog
 Built In Rss Generator so everyone can view your latest posts

Screenshots

Admin Area   Viewing Posts

Help & Faqs

 How do I install Amethyst?
The best way to install Amethyst and figure out how it works is to open the INSTALL file included with the download. It will tell you everything about how to get it up and running... and how to use it! Also, check out the README file, it has some good info in it as well. If you need any help, check out our forum, or ask us!

Development

Do you like Amethyst, but you think it's missing a little something? We're open to suggestions! In our Development center, you can monitor the progress of the next release of Amethyst, recommend new features, report bugs, and you can even download any release of Amethyst if you want to work on your own version.

I've fixed this issue(file: _app/views/admin/_list_comments.html.erb_) by sanitizing output of Us...
July 26 2010 - 03:48 AM
To fix this issue, I've added Rails' native forgery protection function to _app/controllers/appli...
July 26 2010 - 04:00 AM
In the file: _app/views/admin/edit_settings.rhtml_, I've sanitized all setting values by escaping...
July 26 2010 - 04:11 AM
Any supplied user input for the file: _app/views/admin/edit.rhtml_ is now sanitized. Here's what ...
July 26 2010 - 04:21 AM
XSS vulnerability in Amethyst Vulnerability ID: HTB22499 Product: Amethyst Vendor: Hulihan Applic...
July 22 2010 - 10:20 PM

Themes

More themes coming soon!


Submit A Theme

If you created your a theme for Amethyst, let us know about it and we'll list it here!
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Admin Username: admin
Admin Password: admin

I've helped a couple people get amethyst up and running on bluehost/hostmonster servers, it's a l...
January 29 2010 - 01:41 AM
Im usally pretty savy with this kind of stuff but I had no luck installing this one. http://ww...
January 29 2010 - 01:40 AM
That's a socket file that mysql creates for other programs to connect to it with. You can delete ...
January 14 2010 - 10:53 PM
What is a socket? <pre> adapter: mysql database: database username: root password:...
January 14 2010 - 10:52 PM
There's no catch to the free software, it's open source, and we like the public. That's pretty mu...
January 14 2010 - 10:50 PM
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