Thanks for that cool contribution,
it''s really a great approach to provide granular functionnalities.
Maybe one day I''ll be able to build a website using such blocks and
just make the design ?
I just installed the gem, but I don''t get how to have an independent
instance of the package. Shouldn''t it be provided as a generator
instead ?
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:59:23 -0500, Scott Barron
<scott-HDQKq3lYuGDk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> == What is Scratch?
>
> Scratch is a little toy I put together in Ruby on Rails. Think of it as
> a spin-off of my larger Rails app, Elite Journal. If nothing else, you
> can think of Scratch as a demonstration of the new Action Web Services
> component of Rails.
>
> From the web page:
>
> Scratch is the minimalist''s web log. Scratch gives you nothing
more than
> the meta-weblog API for posting. Reading is done via Atom or RSS.
That''s
> it. There''s no HTML to hack up. You don''t have to use the
same, tired
> old web log template that everyone else is using. Break out of that
> blue, rounded rectangle! Be original! Thumb your nose at those primitive
> apes still using the web! Use Scratch! Scratch can also serve as a
> framework for developing your own weblog package, if that''s the
way you
> roll.
>
> There are no categories, comments, tags, users, blah, blah, blah. None
> of that bloat. Scratch is what it is and it ain''t no more.
>
> == Installation
>
> % gem install Scratch
> % scratch
>
> From here you''ll need something like MarsEdit or ecto to post and
an
> aggregator to read (Newsfire and NetNewsWire are good).
>
> == More Information
>
> More information can be found at the Scratch website:
>
> http://scratch.rubyforge.org
>
> The subversion repository lives at:
>
> http://dev.elitists.textdriven.com/svn/software/Scratch/trunk
>
> (you''ll need to login with anonymous/anonymous until I get around
to
> turning that off, sorry).
>
> Enjoy
> -Scott
>
>
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