From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-09-03T02:56:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby blog software.

Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
> 
> :D Well, if I had shell access to the box on which my blog is published, 
> your CVS approach would be wonderful. Unfortunately, all I have is 
> FTP... But wait a minute; am I a Ruby programmer, or aren't I? :) I'm 
> sure I could make it work, for me. My wife, however, would certainly 
> prefer the web interface to a 
> text-editor/local-web-server/upload-process approach. It would certainly 
> make Rublog that much more attractive to the 
> "non-programming-casual-blogger" demographic.
> 

Well, what would be handy all around would be a client-side tool that 
let you edit stuff and then magically FTP|XML-RPC|WebDAV the results to 
a a server.

It's not that any of that is so hard, but getting something nicely 
integrated with a decent editor can be tricky.

When I first started working on Blogtari, I had some Word VBA stuff that 
would let me edit a post in Word, then upload a plain-text version of 
the file to the server.  (It may have shelled out to a Ruby script 
someplace in there; I haven't used it in a while, as I now tend to use 
w.bloggar and Blogtari's XML-RPC to post)

I've been looking at doing the same with OpenOffice Writer, except that 
the complete sxw file would be transfered, rather than a dumbed-down 
html or text version.


James