From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-04-17T04:34:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby blogs

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Jim Weirich wrote:

# 
# Ian Macdonald said:
# > A second question regarding other mark-ups: has anyone added support for
# > RedCloth, BlueCloth, etc.? I just want to know, before I set about doing
# > it myself.
# 
# To do this, you need to write a converter, put it in the converters
# directory and then include it in your main blog script.  Given that the
# bluecloth library handles the details of text=>html conversion, all you
# need is a few glue methods.  Look at the existing converters for example.
# 
# I did this in about 15 minutes for BlueCloth, starting from scratch and
# never looking at a converter before.  Its really that easy.
# 
# > One thing I wish I could do with rublog, however, is store my articles
# > in .rhtml files and embed Ruby code in them, for execution by eRuby. It
# > doesn't seem to be set up to do this. Am I mistaken about this or do I
# > need to add this functionality myself?
# 
# Again, this is a matter of writing a converter.  I've not used eruby, but
# if you can call eruby to turn a text string into HTML, then this would be
# as trivial as the BlueCloth conversion.
# 

I wonder if it would be easier to use ERb than eRuby.  You might try it if 
you find eruby difficult.  I believe it's included with Ruby these days?

# Seriously, I'm terribly impressed with how easy it is to extend Rublog
# (Great job Dave!).  I'd love to hear Chad's talk at the O'Reilly Open
# Source Convention
# (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/view/e_sess/5322).
# 

Me too!  I wonder what I'm going to say. :)

Chad