From: David Heinemeier Hansson Date: 2004-04-09T22:22:14+09:00 Subject: [ANN] Instiki 0.3.0: Before the Storm What's new in Instiki 0.3.0? ============================ Instiki have moved off the backburner and into full-on development as its been chosen for playing a part in my bachelor's project on Social Software. This release is entitled "Before the Storm" as it's mainly about polish before I start adding features that'll require data migration. Upgrading to 0.3.0 is a no-brainer. Just move your wikis from storage/ over from the old installation and all should be fine. The most apparent change is that the user interface has been polished for all pages. This includes much requested Textile help on the edit page. But there's also locking, so you won't accidently start editing a page someone else is already working on. Full change list: * Brought all files into common style (including Textile help on the edit page) * Added page locking (if someone already is editing a page there's a warning) * Added daemon abilities on Unix (keep Instiki running after you close the terminal) * Made port 2500 the default port, so Instiki can be launched by dobbelt-click * Added Textile cache to speed-up rendering of large pages * Made WikiWords look like "Wiki Words" * Updated RedCloth to 2.0.4 The next release will include a good share of the following stories: * Each revision is stored on the page object and it's possible to navigate back through the history with Previous / Next. * Informal signatures as wiki words (DavidHeinemeierHansson) that are stored in the cookie and attached to each revision. * Simple, optional password protection stored in the cookie. * Export to HTML with all control links stripped. All files named after their wikinames in one big directory, example: GetThisStarted.html. HomePage becomes index.html. * Multiple wiki spaces running on the same port. * Two RSS feeds for recent changes. "Headlines" with just headlines, author, and date. "Full content" that also include the entire page content. What is Instiki? ================ Admitted, it's Yet Another Wiki Clone[1], but with a strong focus on simplicity of installation and running: Step 1. Download Step 2. Run "instiki.rb 2505" Step 3. *Chuckle*... "There's no step three!" (TM) You're now running a perfectly suitable wiki on port 2505 that'll present you with a textarea for the home page on entering. Instiki lowers the barriers of interest for when you might consider using a wiki. It's so simple to get running that you'll find yourself using it for anything -- taking notes, brainstorming, organizing a gathering. Instiki reserves a separate WikiSpace for each port number, so you can run more than one wiki by keeping them on separate ports. It also means that you can't access the same wiki on another port than the one you started it on (unless you move the directory in storage). Features: * Regular expression search: Find deep stuff really fast * Reference tracker: Which other pages are pointing to the current? * Speed: Using Madelein for persistence (all pages are in memory) * Textile formatting[2]: By ways of RedCloth * Embedded webserver: Through WEBrick Missing: * Revision control * Access control (there's not even an explicit user concept) * File attachments History: * 0.3.0: Brought all files into common style (including Textile help on the edit page) Added page locking (if someone already is editing a page there's a warning) Added daemon abilities on Unix (keep Instiki running after you close the terminal) Made port 2500 the default port, so Instiki can be launched by dobbelt-click Added Textile cache to speed-up rendering of large pages Updated RedCloth to 2.0.4 Made WikiWords look like "Wiki Words" * 0.2.5: Upgraded to RedCloth 2.0.2 and Madeleine 0.6.1, which means the Windows problems are gone. Also fixed a problem with wikiwords that used part of other wikiwords. * 0.2.0: First public release Download latest from: http:// rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=186 License is the same as Ruby's [1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki? WikiWikiClones [2] Textile Syntax: http://www.textism.com/ tools/textile/ -- David Heinemeier Hansson, david@loudthinking.com http://www.loudthinking.com/