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by Eric Stewart.
Original Post: Liking RubLog So Far
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I replaced my development weblog with RubLog nearly 2 months ago. My main reasons were that I wanted a project to let me play with Ruby, my latest language to learn, and I had gotten tired of the complexity and usability issues of Movable Type. Not that MT was bad at all, but it didn’t fit me. I wanted something simpler in many ways and more extensible in others.
Enter RubLog. Nicely written, simple, fairly extensible. And it’s done in pure Ruby!! There are a few others done in Ruby that look promising as well, but I found RubLog first. But now that I have used it for a little while (not too heavily though), I am beginning to ponder some of the things I would like to see in it for my own use.
I already wrote a custom converter for Textile text (via the Redcloth library). I’ll explain my motivation for that in another post. That was the easy one. Some other ideas will target the depths of RubLog code a little more.
layout via CSS rather than tables
possible metadata (i.e. so entries could somehow match more than one category)
entry extension hiding
trackback support
wiki integration
Of course there are some other features missing that other weblog software supports. These seem less useful to me right now, but many people seem to want.
admin (posting) user interface
comments
xml-rpc interface for posting (this might be a more important one that I think right now)
I’m sure I forgot something. Anyhow, it doesn’t matter. This is Dave’s baby anyway. Maybe he’ll find something I implement interesting and add it to the code base. Anyhow, thanks Dave for creating a nice little weblog package!
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