From: Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T10:05:40+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby wiki options?

On 10/10/06, ramalho@gmail.com <ramalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> dc wrote:
> > wondering if people have recommendations for a simple to use ruby
> > wiki? [...]
> > any suggested progressing wiki projects?
>
> Looking for the same thing, I found this page helpful:
>
> http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/RubyWikis
>
> Among those listed, Wiki2Go [1] seemed to me the most promising as it
> is good looking, has significant and active deployments and is actively
> maintained by a group of people. The key phrase here is "a group of
> people", since projects with single maintainers have a much higher
> probability of being abandoned, even if temporarily.
>
> [1] http://wiki2go.nayima.be/
>
> The wiki engine used by RubyGarden itself looks solid. It's called Ruse
> but it "is not being distributed yet" [2] and the corresponding
> RubyForge project has no activity and no files.
>
> [2] http://wikis.onestepback.org/Ruse
>
> I wonder if anyone knows what's up with Instiki. It seems the
> instiki.org site has been down for many days (weeks?) now.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luciano
>
>
>

The original maintainer of Instiki, Alexey, all but disappeared.
There was a user who took up a branch and merged some fixes and also
opened up a repository.  Not sure what the status with that is,
though.

There is also i2, which is a super simple Rails wiki originally
written by DHH.  Its behind the official Rails wiki, and I use it to
power the Madison Ruby wiki (http://www.madisonrails.com) with some
simple modifications and a captcha plugin I developed.  I like it
because the code base is tiny and easy to change and hack.  So the
fact that i2 is not properly maintained isn't that big of an issue, as
it "just works" if you need something simple.

I'm looking forward to Ruse being officially released, as well.

- Rob

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