From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-09-03T03:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby blog software.

James Britt wrote:
> 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.

Good point. I alwasys forget about XML-RPC and friends... being 
more-or-less a standard, it should be fairly easy to find editors (or 
modify editors) that would support functionality to upload your edits 
directly. In fact, vim has Ruby scriptability...I've never actually used 
it before, but this might be an instance where such a feature would be 
REALLY useful. :)

> 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'll grab Blogtari and give it a spin. If I have time, I may even try to 
write an XML-RPC process that uploads to an area known to a rublog instance.

Thanks!

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