My new blog engine ... smerb!
Well, I just got my new blog engine published … which I’ve tentatively code named “smerb”. It’s really nothing great right now, but it lets me post articles, provides a simple feed reader, allows for comments and has a simple administrative interface. It’s a nice jump away from WordPress and doesn’t provide all of the bells and whistles, but it’ll work for now.
The fun part? The technology behind it all! It’s all written in Ruby on the Merb Framework. Using DataMapper as the ORM, haml as the template language, jQuery for the javascript library and being hosted over on Slicehost. I think the best thing about it is how much I’ve learned about implementing everything.
There are still a lot of kinks I need to get worked out and transfer over some of the existing data from the WordPress site, but for the most part it’s working pretty well. I changed over my DNS entries yesterday so I’m sure it will take the weekend for it to propagate through the interwebs.
Hey man,
Sure do. I had it private for a while, because I had some pretty hard coded servers names and stuff in the deployment, but it should be good now.
http://github.com/bryansray/smerb/tree/master
It’s really rough right now. Feather is probably an excellent ‘real’ blog engine, but I like to have a personal sandbox.
Got a git repo so I can clone and take a look?
Testing out the new mollom spam protection.