Rails - Jul 2005 - ActiveRecord backend for Instiki - call for volunteers

I''m planning to give Instiki an ActiveRecord backend, thus making it a 
100% Rails application.If you know your way around AR and want to 
participate in this exercise, please reply. Should be
fun.

Best regards,
Alexey Verkhovsky

Alex,
> I''m planning to give Instiki an ActiveRecord backend, thus making
it a
> 100% Rails application.If you know your way around AR and want to 
> participate in this exercise, please reply. Should be
> fun.
I''ve given this some thought in the past, and I was thinking that it
might make sense to write a limited-functionality Madeleine adapter for
AR.  This woudl allow Instiki to maintain its ease of use, but I don''t
really know if it''s feasible.

Either way, I''d be interested in helping.  I''m not intimately
familiar
with AR but I think I could still be useful.

Thanks,
Ben

On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 11:01 -0700, Ben Bleything wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> > I''m planning to give Instiki an ActiveRecord backend, thus
making it a
> > 100% Rails application.If you know your way around AR and want to 
> > participate in this exercise, please reply. Should be
> > fun.
> 
> I''ve given this some thought in the past, and I was thinking that
it
> might make sense to write a limited-functionality Madeleine adapter for
> AR.  This woudl allow Instiki to maintain its ease of use, but I
don''t
> really know if it''s feasible.
> 
> Either way, I''d be interested in helping.  I''m not
intimately familiar
> with AR but I think I could still be useful.
You did manage to fix the PDX.rb instiki[1]. :-) 

[1] http://www.pdxruby.org


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Robby Russell wrote:
>You did manage to fix the PDX.rb instiki[1]. :-) 
>
>[1] http://www.pdxruby.org
>  
>
You mean, upgrading to 0.10.2 did it?

Alex

Ben Bleything wrote:
>I''ve given this some thought in the past, and I was thinking that
it
>might make sense to write a limited-functionality Madeleine adapter for
>AR.  This woudl allow Instiki to maintain its ease of use, but I
don''t
>really know if it''s feasible.
>  
>
Great. Welcome aboard!

I suggest that you start by looking long and hard at insiki/app/model code
Don''t bother too much with the whole model/chunk thing - it is all
about
markup parsing, and really belongs in the lib. Mainly you need to 
understand who are wiki, page and revision, and how do they interact 
with each other. Once I have some spare time, I will write up some user 
stories to organize the coding.

Alex

> I suggest that you start by looking long and hard at insiki/app/model code
> Don''t bother too much with the whole model/chunk thing - it is all
about
> markup parsing, and really belongs in the lib. Mainly you need to
> understand who are wiki, page and revision, and how do they interact
> with each other. Once I have some spare time, I will write up some user
> stories to organize the coding.
Count me in, boss.  I''ll help out as time permits.  Hopefully
I''ll
have some time to do some good rails coding this week or weekend...

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rick
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On Sat, Jul 30, 2005, Alex Verhovsky wrote:
> Robby Russell wrote:
> 
> >You did manage to fix the PDX.rb instiki[1]. :-) 
> >
> >[1] http://www.pdxruby.org
> > 
> >
> You mean, upgrading to 0.10.2 did it?
Nah.  It ended up being that we needed to invoke instiki with an
absolute path to the storage directory.  That got us back to being able
to actually edit pages.

There was some discussion about broken edits with special characters,
but I didn''t look at that at all.  It could well be exactly what 0.10.2
fixes for all I know.

Ben