I just did the initial commit of the ruby on rails wiki engine I built – here and here for Wiki.Cullect.com – into the collaborative source-code site github. If you’re interested in helping out – or just need a Rails-based Wiki – you can grab it here: http://github.com/garrickvanburen/culwiki/tree/master
Category Archives: Wikis
How To: Build a Wiki with Ruby on Rails – Part 2
Back in Part 1 of Building a Wiki with Ruby on Rails, we built the core wiki engine. Time to add some syntax formatting. These days, I’m pretty enamored of Haml, it’s more like HTML (unlike many other formatting engines) and it’s fast to write (unlike many other formatting engines). 1. Install Haml Haml installs …
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How To: Build a Wiki with Ruby on Rails – Part 1
Here’s how to build a very simple Ruby on Rails-based wiki engine 1. 1. Create the Rails App rails wiki and cd wiki to get inside the app. Remember: create your database (i.e. wiki_development) and update config/database.ymlappropriately 2. Generate the Scaffolding There are 3 nouns in this wiki system: People, Pages, Revisions. Let’s create the …
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How Wikis Work Best
Hugh Macleod released the HughPage, a wiki for bloggers, yesterday. As always he concisely captures the power of a wiki. “The Hughpage wiki is up and at your disposal….Just blogged about something that doesn’t have a section? Then create a new section by yourself. No need to ask first. Exactly.” Like describing the idea of …