Category: Wikis

My Rails-based Wiki Engine now in GitHub

Post author By Garrick van Buren
Post date December 5, 2008
Categories In Programming, Ruby on Rails, Wikis

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

How To: Build a Wiki with Ruby on Rails – Part 2

Post author By Garrick van Buren
Post date September 17, 2008
Categories In Programming, Projects, Ruby on Rails, Wikis

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 […]

How To: Build a Wiki with Ruby on Rails – Part 1

Post author By Garrick van Buren
Post date September 15, 2008
Categories In Programming, Projects, Ruby on Rails, Wikis

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 […]

How Wikis Work Best

Post author By Garrick van Buren
Post date July 26, 2005
Categories In Blogging for Business, Podcasting, Wikis
1 Comment on 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 […]