From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2004-04-17T18:34:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby blogs

On Sat 17 Apr 2004 at 03:23:28 +0900, Chad Fowler wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Ian Macdonald wrote:
> 
> # I'm messing around with the various blogging tools written using Ruby
> # and for Ruby programmers.
> # 
> # So far, I've tried rb.log and rublog. I like the power of the former,
> # but I also like the elegant simplicity of the latter and the fact that
> # rublog can now handle Movable Style stylesheets.
> # 
> # 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?
> # 
> 
> You would need to add that functionality yourself.  It would be *really* 
> easy.  Have a look at any of the files under "convertors/".
> 
> # 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.
> # 
> 
> I did BlueCloth.  It's on my machine at home.  You could probably do it 
> after looking at the files I mention above faster than I could get home 
> and send it to you. :)

You were right!

I haven't decided on which colour cloth I like yet, red or blue, so I
made converters for both in just a few minutes. RubLog really does have
a sweet architecture.

Ian
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