# cloudhead/toto

the 10 second blog-engine for hackers

Repository: https://github.com/cloudhead/toto
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/toto
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2015-11-08T23:17:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6154, "days_push": 3951, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1495, forks 239 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:53.087917+00:00)

## What it is
Toto is a tiny (~300 sloc) git-powered blog engine built directly on Rack, storing articles as plain text files with YAML metadata and rendering them via ERB templates. It is designed for deployment on Heroku behind a reverse-proxy cache like Varnish, with no database or web framework dependencies.

## Use cases
- host a minimalist personal blog
- publish blog posts from git
- deploy a static-ish blog to heroku
- blog without a database using plain text files
- run a markdown-based blog on rack

## When to choose
- you want an ultra-minimal, git-driven blog with no database
- you deploy to heroku and want HTTP caching-friendly performance
- you prefer managing content as plain text files in version control

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained project - the last release was 2015
- you want a modern static site generator with themes and plugins
- you need dynamic features, a database, or a CMS admin UI

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: static-site-generator, templating, http-server, markdown
- domain: web-development, cms, documentation
- platform: ruby, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: blog-engine, git-powered, rack, minimalist, heroku, plain-text, web-server

## Member repositories
- cloudhead/toto (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:53.087917+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:33:16.516970+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cloudhead/toto (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:53.087917+00:00, sha eee2b62e5011)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.