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Toto - Heroku blogging in 10 seconds & 230 LOC
- stanleydrew 17y agoThis seems to borrow a lot from Jekyll (http://wiki.github.com/mojombo/jekyll/usage http://wiki.github.com/mojombo/jekyll/usage), or maybe both are borrowing from some common ancestor?
- btucker 17y agoRael Dornfest's http://www.blosxom.com/ http://www.blosxom.com/? I'd say that blazed the trail ~10 years ago for this type of software. I know for me at least, Blosxom was incredibly eye opening.
- cloudhead 17y agoYea, I evaluated jekyll, scanty, webby, aerial and a couple of other similar engines before making this, but none of them really worked the way I wanted.
- spooneybarger 17y agowhat about how jekyll works made you want to do something else?
- cloudhead 17y agoTwo reasons mainly: - I wanted it to play well with Heroku, Jekyll generates files, which is incompatible with the read-only filesystem of heroku. - I wanted something really simple, Jekyll's become a little too heavy for what should be a simple task.
- stanleydrew 17y agoI agree that jekyll's getting a bit heavy, although I'm definitely not even taking full advantage of all it's features. I still don't know much about Heroku though, and this might be a good way to try it out.
- spooneybarger 17y agoi cant seem to reply to your reply... as to your point 1, have you seen: http://www.jstorimer.com/2009/12/29/jekyll-on-heroku.html http://www.jstorimer.com/2009/12/29/jekyll-on-heroku.html
- breck 17y agoI really like the idea. I've casually been working on a similar project except with PHP. -http://github.com/breck7/brecksblog http://github.com/breck7/brecksblog -http://brecksblog.com http://brecksblog.com It's 1 file, under 250 lines of code, and powers a fair number of blogs now. Also uses a file for storage (no database needed).
- hyperbolist 17y agoThanks for this, I'm enjoying it! You probably want to add something like set :url, "http://example.com" # site root URL to your config.ru documentation.
- malyk 17y agoAny example blogs out there? Obviously it's configurable, but just having an example or demo blog out there might be nice.
- barmstrong 17y agoYep any example blogs you can point us to? Very cool idea!