On: Toto - Heroku blogging in 10 seconds & 230 LOC

[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.