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  1. Re:A question... by FuzzzyLogik · · Score: 2, Informative · on What's the Secret Sauce in Ruby on Rails?

    You can use a lot of different templating languages here. A few off hand... Liquid Markaby You can write your own in fact. There's actually two that come in Rails, Builder for creating xml files (rxml) and the other you normally see for building html pages (rhtml suffix)

  2. Re:MySQL facists!! by soundofthemoon · · Score: 3, Informative · on WordPress 2.0 Released

    You might want to check out typo, an open source blog developed in Ruby on Rails. From the overview: "Supported databases: Mysql, Sqlite, and PostgreSQL"

  3. Re:Template System for RoR by Diomedes01 · · Score: 1 · on Is Ruby on Rails Maintainable?

    Have you looked at Liquid?

  4. Re:If self hosting, what to use? by wootest · · Score: 1 · on Blog Services Outgrow Their Data Centers

    WordPress (PHP) is an amazing piece of software. I used to use Movable Type, and their respective pros and cons tend to cancel each other out, so it's really a matter of taste and priorities. There are tons of other solutions - TextPattern (PHP) and Typo (Ruby on Rails) are also popular and widely supported, and if neither will do, check your favorite search engine's index.

    And yes, the word "blog" is an amazing eyesore, and it's just a contraction for the hell of it. "Weblog" or even the accepted ancestral "log" means so much more that it's hard to believe why people would use the four letter alternative other than to feel special.

  5. Rails cost/benefit results by rheotaxis · · Score: 4, Informative · on Ruby on Rails 1.0 Released
    So far, I love Rails, because I have done the following, with these initial costs:
    1. new domain name, $5/year
    2. Rails host acct, $12/year
    3. my time spent, about 6 to 10 hours a week for last 2 months

    Installed Rails Apps (open source): (sorry, no links to my domain, must avoid /. effect):
    • blog at my own domain using typo
    • agile, extreme programming management tool using eXPlainPMT
    • a to do list using Tracks
    • content management system using MuraveyWeb CMS


    How is this different? I only worry about one Terms of Service, imposed by the web host. I control all aspects of the deployment of the Rails apps. So the blog is not just my blog, its a blog at my domain (or sub-domain if I perfer), and I control the databases that store its content. In fact, I control every aspect of the blog. For instance, I could make the blog appear and disappear based upon phases of the moon. Can you do that with any blog host, just by changing two links at a shell prompt?

    The same goes for every other Rails app I have deployed on my server account. The Rails principles of "don't repeat yourself" (DRY) and convention over configuration, meant that once I installed one Rails app, the experience was immediately applicable to installing the rest. They all have the same directory structure, and the same configuration file for database connection, which is the only configuration file you must edit.

    The rest just works, usually. You have to check your versions, and make sure your app and Rails work at the current version. I admit I have experience building server side web projects using VB6 DLL and ASP.NET, along with equally strong UNIX background, so I was able to tweak a few things and proceed when they didn't work the first time. Don't dispair, I was able to make it work after a few hours of checking on-line forums, and trying some suggestions.
  6. For Web 2.0 buzzword compliance by JemalCole · · Score: 1 · on Blog Software Smackdown

    I recommend Typo to people willing to get their hands dirty. It's built on Ruby on Rails, uses AJAX, and all the other Web 2.0 goodness could want (tagging is in the works, feeds for everything, yellow fade, blue gradients).

  7. For Web 2.0 buzzword compliance by JemalCole · · Score: 1 · on Blog Software Smackdown

    I recommend Typo to people willing to get their hands dirty. It's built on Ruby on Rails, uses AJAX, and all the other Web 2.0 goodness could want (tagging is in the works, feeds for everything, yellow fade, blue gradients).

  8. Typo. by WWWWolf · · Score: 2, Informative · on Blog Software Smackdown

    Typo is so far the greatest blogware I've seen. Was a little bit problematic to get running at first on my web host (they didn't have Ruby and Rails installed, had to build them from source), but it has been working like a dream ever since.

    It has one really good side, specifically, it doesn't depend on any particular database. I'm using it on sqlite. Few blogwares offer that as an option. (Especially if nobody really reads my blog. =)

    Has one annoying side though - relies on AJAX crap for preview when I type articles. Should file a bug report along the lines of "What's wrong with plain old preview-before-post?" one day...

  9. Re:Suggestions by Marillion · · Score: 2 · on Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails
    Since this is a Rails Article, I have found Typo which is a Rails based Blog tool that's along the same lines as WordPress or MoveableType and others. It has Comments, RSS+Atom feeds.

    You can use all the MoveableType posting tools to maintain content - or use the builtin Active Record, HTML based Admin Tool.

    It's pretty young, and has a few bugs in the XML-RPC interface. But, it was easy to customize and fix the XML-RPC bug.

    If you promise to be nice to my home DSL line: The Fermata

  10. Re:Good for "recipe" queries but little else by Tobias+Luetke · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Rolling With Ruby On Rails

    This is not insightful. If you want to see how well it scales look all all the production grade applications out there. The source to hieraki is freely accessible.

    Rails is NOT your run the mill proof of concept framework. Its the next level of programming environment right now and here. Available for you to download under MIT license. The people who use it make applications magnitudes faster than the people who aren't. Single people can be as productive as whole teams.

    There hasn't been an improvement in productivity like this in recent programming-history.

    And don't just put down what you don't understand, give it a try.

    Your attitude will just get you boring jobs.