From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-09-03T01:56:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby blog software.

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 00:19:22 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 2, 2004, at 9:33, Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
> >   1) Online composition of articles.
> 
> You probably won't see this coming from me: I'd much rather use a text
> editor to edit text... :)
> 

Same here, in general, though I kind of like the Wiki-as-blog-editor notion.

> >   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.
> 
> One of the joys (for me) of RubLog is that it understands CVS, so I can
> edit articles anywhere, and then jut check them in to have them appear.
> I run Apache on my Powerbiik, with a RubLog pointing to my check-ed out
> workspace. I edit articles on that machine, and view them inthe local
> apache. When I'm happy, I do CVS commit, and they're sent to my server,
> and are published via http://pragprog.com/pragdave.
> 

I love the CVS feature too.  Glenn Vanderburg added some neat code
that lets you only "publish" articles that are tagged to be published.
 So you have a really cool version-control-driven "draft" feature,
though the draft wouldn't be viewable on your "production" weblog.

I follow the same pattern as Dave, but I use the Webrick servlet for
RubLog instead of Apache on my local machine.


> >   3) Textile support. (Blogtari does this, but I didn't see any
> > RedCloth converter for Rublog.)
> 

I created a RedCloth convertor the first day RedCloth was announced. 
It was so little code that I forgot about it and never sent it in.  It
would literally be a < 5 minute process to recreate.

Chad