From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-09-02T23:47:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby blog software.

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:33:33 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote:
> Mike Clark wrote:
> Rublog looks tempting, I'll have to admit. I need to give it a try (and
>   Blogtari -- that looked promising, too).
> 
> However, here are three of the features that I really would like, and
> which I didn't see in either of those:
> 
>    1) Online composition of articles.

As noted in an earlier message, Chad has a RubLog/Ruwiki converter for
an earlier version of Ruwiki -- it doesn't work with the current
version. Either he or I will get it working before RubyConf 2004, as
it's part of my goal for the 0.8.1/0.9.0 timeframe.

>    2) The ability to set an article as a "draft", so it doesn't appear
> in the published version of the blog. (My wife uses this feature of
> MoveableType all the time.) This feature only really makes sense when
> online composotion of articles is available.

There is a (commented-out) feature called Filters that will help with
this. I am diving into the Rublog code as the Bluecloth/Markdown
support didn't work for short RSS, so I added the ability to put a
synopsis as was done for RDoc formats. I really like the multiple
format support, and this was nice and easy to deal with. I also added
a custom timestamp generator from the filename (e.g., Foo.20040101.md
will publish the markdown-formatted with the date of 2004.01.01). I
will probably look at enabling the Filters feature on my local copy
and offer the changes back to Dave.

I also took the template enhancements that I did for Ruwiki (it uses
the RDoc/Rublog template engine) and backported them to Ruwiki
(although there's porting that has to go both ways) that I will offer
back to Dave for this, as I think it simplifies some of the template
code.

>    3) Textile support. (Blogtari does this, but I didn't see any
> RedCloth converter for Rublog.)
> 
> I imagine it's not too hard to add new converters to Rublog. (I seem to
> remember a thread about that not too very long ago...) If I have the
> time (ha!) I'd like to see about maybe hacking on the other two
> features, unless someone has already done so.

Ultimately, Ruwiki will offer a way to work with Textile and Markdown
formatted stuff.

-austin
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