@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Scanty is blogging software. It was created by Adam Wiggins for his blog: http://adam.blog.heroku.com -The only things that I've changed with this version is the data-access. Rather than his default of +The main thing that has been changed with this version is the data-access. Rather than his default of Sequel, and a SQLite database, I have used CouchRest for accessing a CouchDB database. It is not a blogging engine, but it's small and easy to modify, so it could be @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Maruku and Syntax are vendored. For now, CouchRest needs the Gem installed to wo == Setup -Edit main.rb and change the Blog config struct at the top to your liking. For +Change the Blog config struct in config/app_config.rb to your liking. For security purposes, change the admin password and the admin cookie key and value. These last two can be set to any random value you like, just choose something other than the default. @@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ Log in with the password you selected, then click New Post. The rest should be self-explanatory. In production, you'll probably want to run "rake start" to start (and restart) -the server. Change the value of "port" at the top of the Rakefile to run on a -different port. +the server. == Database @@ -73,6 +72,12 @@ Christopher Swenson has a Wordpress importer: http://github.com/swenson/scanty_w Other kinds of data can be imported easily, take a look at the rake task :import for an example of loading from a YAML file with field names that match the database schema. +== Extras + +I've added a few more features which weren't in the original Scanty: +- the ATOM feed now creates a separate feed URL for each user. The last_access property is updated for each user, whenever the feed is accessed. this allows the number of readers to be tracked, and old users to be removed, providing better accuracy. +- there is now a checkbox when creating or editing a post which determines whether the post will be published. you will only see the unpublished posts when signed in. this allows unfinished posts to be saved without worrying about copying and pasting, etc. + == Customize There are no themes or settings beyond the basic ones in the Blog struct. Just README.rdoc 5937ab1388005d6b787ff306a71f358d59c36f18 jtulloch joel@jtulloch.com http://github.com/jtulloch/scanty/commit/0f1add05722251f6dea9cb871ebe954653fb50b9 0f1add05722251f6dea9cb871ebe954653fb50b9 2008-12-11T11:41:31-08:00 2008-12-11T11:41:31-08:00 add information about new features in Extras section of README f206066afc101fea496fe92d56b9b31d4ba08806 jtulloch joel@jtulloch.com