Background

Hobo is an ultra-lightweight blog engine written in Python. It has two dependencies, fully integrated into the codebase with no additional downloads: bottle.py and markdown2. Because of this fact, it is extremely customizable and can be extended to incorporate all kinds of scripts designed for the very popular bottle.py web framework.

Hobo is based on the wonderful software designed by Alexis Sellier named toto, written in Ruby. Additionally, special thanks goes to clownfart for his amazing work on markdown.css which was used as a framework for the primary css-theme.

The name Hobo is the name of the canine protagonist from The Littlest Hobo.

Features

• About 300kb in size.
• No extra dependencies or installations.
• Easy to deploy.
• No knowledge of HTML necessary.
• Pre-packaged with a stylish theme called theballoonist.css.
• No databases.
• Easily modified templates that use SimpleTemplate included in the /views directory.
• Out-of-the-box support for pagination (15-posts per page by default).
• Supports plain-text, html, or markdown.
• Supports static file serving (images, videos, documents, etc.).

Installation and Setup

It's pretty much the easiest thing in the world to setup. It can run as a standalone client by changing the heroku flag in the config.ini file to 'off' and then simply calling:

Deploy Locally

$ git clone git@github.com:andrewnelder/hobo.git
$ cd hobo
$ python hobo.py

That being said, it's designed for use with heroku. All you need to do is:

Deploy on Heroku

$ git clone git@github.com:andrewnelder/hobo.git personal-blog
$ cd personal-blog
$ heroku create --stack cedar personal-blog
$ git push heroku master

Usage

Once you've got everything nicely configured -- the next step is easy. Take a peek in the blog_config.py file and make sure everything there adds up. All that really needs to be configured are the 'title' and 'author' fields.

Then all you need to do is make your first blog-post. Just like toto, all it takes is putting a .txt, .md, or .markdown file in the posts directory. The file name should be in the form:

Filename

# Format
$ YYYY-MM-DD-blog-post-title.md

# Example
$ 1984-10-21-good-books-are-hard-to-find.md

Then put it on heroku!

Upload Changes to Heroku

$ git add .
$ git commit -am 'Added a new blog post.'
$ git push heroku master

Copyright (c) 2012 Andrew Nelder. Licensed under the MIT License.

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