tags: simplelog
2007
August
- 2007 Aug 25
- never what you expect
So, yes, now it's Simplelog, yet another blog engine running on Ruby on Rails. I guess I'll be sticking to the stable distribution right now, although it doesn't look like the codebase has really been touched in the past 6 months.
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- it's never enough (successfully migrating from mephisto to simplelog)
When you get down to it, Mephisto has all the things I want in a blog engine. Non-crufty permalinks. (Only Wordpress formats its permalinks similarly, although you can easily get this from Blosxom.) A clean interface (Simplelog is probably the only one that is as clean.) A templating system that doesn't utilize nested angle-brackets (something that every single templating system out there has a problem with, except for Liquid, XSLT, and Erubis.) A templating system that strives to separate business logic from presentation (this is something I hate about PHP, and it's the thing that drove me away from Wordpress and which keeps me away, despite the fact that it has been the easiest blog engine to deal with so far. This is the thing that I love about XSLT despite its obtuse, arcane syntax. This is what I fear about Erb, because it makes it so easy to insert Ruby into your templates, leading to the potential of a PHP-like mess. Granted, Ruby is a much cleaner language than PHP, but still.)
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 28
- migrating from mephisto to simplelog
So I managed to teach myself how to use Rails a little, mainly, how to utilize the magic that is ActiveRecord (which unfortunately probably took me at least 48 hours of sustained effort spread out over the last six days.) ActiveRecord makes me almost forget that I'm dealing with a SQL database. I don't have know any arcane syntax. I just have to know Ruby, which is an extremely Zen-like thing to know. (I know it's a stereotype, but, damn, you've got to hand it to the Japanese.) OK, I'm oversimplifying. I haven't really gotten the hang of join tables, but its nothing that convoluted kludgery can't get around.
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December
- 2007 Dec 22
- switching back from simplelog to mephisto
In case you didn't notice, I also switched my blog engine again. Now that Rails 2.0 is out, I thought I'd give Mephisto (from
· Read more…svn) another spin, and it seems to be working relatively well, much better than when I last tried it, although I still get the occasional 500 error. - 2007 Dec 27
- Dreamhost, htaccess, and routes.rb
I have never been able to get my
· Read more….htaccessfile to properly redirect requests from different blog engines. For example, Simplelog tacks on either/archives/or/past/to its URLs, and Typo tacks on/articles/to its posts. That's one of the things I like about Mephisto: it doesn't add what I feel are superfluous tokens to the URLs. (Although I am still trying to figure out how to get rid of/archives/from the monthly posts.) - 2007 Dec 28
- simplelog to mephisto
migrating from Simplelog to Mephisto
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