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This doesn't use Github pages isn't it? The title kind of misled me.
by intull 12y ago
This doesn't use Github pages isn't it? The title kind of misled me.
- roryokane 12y agoYeah, I expected that too but it doesn’t. Instead, it generates a Rails app for you that you have to host yourself, but in the configuration for that Rails app, you point it to a GitHub repository that contains the content of the site. The idea is that you can use the full power of Rails to manage how the content in the content GitHub repository is displayed, such as requiring password logins to sections of the site. See https://github.com/codemy/writefully#why-dont-you-just-use-static-page-generators-like-jekyll-or-middleman https://github.com/codemy/writefully#why-dont-you-just-use-s... for more differences from GitHub Pages.
- jaytaylor 12y agoWhy start with a full-blown ruby app for something like this? What is the drawback to starting simple with a git+markdown based statically generated site?
- artellectual 12y agoIf your trying to build a site that will allow you to sell digital goods, you are going to have problems if you use a static site. With writefully the idea is you get real business objects you can build business intelligence into. So for example I only want users who buy a piece of content to be able to view it, I can do that with associations or some sort of logic to detect who bought what. It's difficult to do that sort of thing with static sites.
- intull 12y agoWon't this logic be open source then? In some cases, business rely on such logic and would want to hide it. How would writefully handle that?
- nickthemagicman 12y agoIs there any thing to do this?