Toto - Heroku blogging in 10 seconds & 230 LOC

[cloudhead]

http://cloudhead.io/toto

[breck]

I really like the idea.

I've casually been working on a similar project except with PHP.

-http://github.com/breck7/brecksblog

-http://brecksblog.com

It's 1 file, under 250 lines of code, and powers a fair number of blogs now. Also uses a file for storage (no database needed).

[malyk]

Any example blogs out there? Obviously it's configurable, but just having an example or demo blog out there might be nice.

[barmstrong → malyk]

Yep any example blogs you can point us to? Very cool idea!

[stanleydrew]

This seems to borrow a lot from Jekyll (http://wiki.github.com/mojombo/jekyll/usage), or maybe both are borrowing from some common ancestor?

[cloudhead → stanleydrew]

Yea, I evaluated jekyll, scanty, webby, aerial and a couple of other similar engines before making this, but none of them really worked the way I wanted.

[spooneybarger → cloudhead]

what about how jekyll works made you want to do something else?

[cloudhead → spooneybarger]

Two reasons mainly:

- I wanted it to play well with Heroku, Jekyll generates files, which is incompatible with the read-only filesystem of heroku.

- I wanted something really simple, Jekyll's become a little too heavy for what should be a simple task.

[stanleydrew → cloudhead]

I agree that jekyll's getting a bit heavy, although I'm definitely not even taking full advantage of all it's features. I still don't know much about Heroku though, and this might be a good way to try it out.

[spooneybarger → spooneybarger]

i cant seem to reply to your reply...

as to your point 1, have you seen:

http://www.jstorimer.com/2009/12/29/jekyll-on-heroku.html

[btucker → stanleydrew]

Rael Dornfest's http://www.blosxom.com/? I'd say that blazed the trail ~10 years ago for this type of software. I know for me at least, Blosxom was incredibly eye opening.

[hyperbolist]

Thanks for this, I'm enjoying it!

You probably want to add something like

  set :url,       "http://example.com"                      # site root URL

to your config.ru documentation.