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  • Up and Running

    Posted 02 April 2009

    Blogs are the archetypal Ruby on Rails web app. Remember that DHH video (the one with “whoops” all through it)? That was a blog he was making.

    Since learning Rails I’ve come to love it, and I’m hoping to contribute back to the community at least a little bit. And to do that, you pretty much need to have a blog. So here’s mine. I don’t intend to post much, but I have a couple of plug-ins I want to release sometime this year, so I’ll at least need it for that.

    I wrote the over a week and bit in March. It’s classic Rails: pagination; article and comment feeds; pretty, RESTful URLs; god-awful ruby-pun title. Shameless self-promotion via sidebar links. And check out the awesome page design and styling! (That’s sarcasm – did you notice? Web design: not my strong point.)

    So a quick run-down of the site:

    • Haml for views (try it and never go back!);
    • CodeRay for syntax highlighting;
    • Textile via RedCloth for article markup;
    • a plugin of my own design for pagination (if I ever write that many articles…);
    • Vlad for deployment to a Linode VPS running Passenger (woo Passenger); and
    • (of course) Rails 2.3.
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