From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2002-02-23T01:30:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for web development

* Guy N. Hurst (gnhurst@hurstlinks.com) wrote:

> Thomas Hurst wrote:
> > Currently what I'm after is a framework which includes stuff like
> > version control and hierachial documents, a bit like rwiki, only
> > without all the wiki cruft beside it and with a nice clean API I can
> > interface with.
>
> I have been slowly working on something like this - but I wonder what
> you mean when you say hierarchical documents... What sort of websites
> do you develop?

Hierachial, as in a collection of documents like:

1. Index
2. Code
   a. Ruby
        1. Tutorials
        2. Projects
   b. PHP
        ..
   c. Regex
        ..
3. Rants
   ..
4. Misc
   ..

Even better, I want to be able to collect Tutorials and Projects from
different areas together into a metacategory, rename documents and have
the change versioned, have 404's caught and version and spellchecked,
and have it all done through a static URI namespace that is solid and
clean.

Then editing can be opened up and there's the tracking of changes, who
changed what, branches (published/wip) so documents being edited aren't
necessarily live, and embedding dynamic content like weblogs and ToC's..
:)

-- 
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst  -  freaky@aagh.net  -  http://www.aagh.net/
-
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their
home."
		-- Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society
		   Convention, 1977