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    <title>Intertwingly on Rails</title>
    <summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Views: <a href='http://rails.intertwingly.net/blog/'>index</a>, <a href='http://rails.intertwingly.net/blog/2008/6/14/Advertise-One-Feed-Format'>post</a>, <a href='http://rails.intertwingly.net/blog/comments.html'>comments</a>, <a href='http://rails.intertwingly.net/blog/archives/2008/06'>archives</a></p>
<p>This clearly is just modest beginnings.  A snapshot of existing data.  Read-only views at this point.  No caching.</p>
<p>Technology is Rails 2.0.2 on <a href='http://www.sqlite.org/'>SQLite3</a> using <a href='http://www.modrails.com/'>Phusion Passenger</a> on <a href='http://www.dreamhost.com/'>Dreamhost</a>.</p></div></summary>
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<p>Views: <a href='http://rails.intertwingly.net/blog/'>index</a>, <a href='http://rails.intertwingly.net/blog/2008/6/14/Advertise-One-Feed-Format'>post</a>, <a href='http://rails.intertwingly.net/blog/comments.html'>comments</a>, <a href='http://rails.intertwingly.net/blog/archives/2008/06'>archives</a></p>
<p>This clearly is just modest beginnings.  A snapshot of existing data.  Read-only views at this point.  No caching.</p>
<p>Technology is Rails 2.0.2 on <a href='http://www.sqlite.org/'>SQLite3</a> using <a href='http://www.modrails.com/'>Phusion Passenger</a> on <a href='http://www.dreamhost.com/'>Dreamhost</a>.</p>
<p>Installation would have been a simple <abbr title='Secure CoPy'>scp</abbr> except for two issues: despite what it says in <a href='http://rails.dreamhosters.com/'>this list</a>, the sqlite3-ruby gem does not appear to be installed.  And the current date on the machine appears to be Feb 15, 3155.</p>
<p>For the model part, I can’t quite bear to break with the idea of flat files yet, so the model consists of two tables: posts and comments, and each contain dates and file name parts only.  The remainder of the model is populated using an after_find hook from the flat files.</p>
<p>With my current Intertwingly, I had three views that had diverged over time, as well as a “partial” which contained the navigation bar.  The <a href='http://intertwingly.net/blog/'>front page</a> (and <a href='http://intertwingly.net/blog/comments.html'>comments page</a>) are clean XHTML5, <a href='http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/06/13/Advertise-One-Feed-Format'>individual posts</a> are XHTML1, and the <a href='http://intertwingly.net/blog/archives/'>archives</a> are based a layout that I used back when I was on Radio Userland.  In the Rails implementation, I have four views and a layout (index and comments becoming separate views).  Having a common layout encourages consistency, and you can see the difference in the archive view already.  More work needs to be done on the individual posts view.</p>
<p>The controller methods are positively pedestrian at this point.  They simply obtain the necessary information from the model, and then proceed to render the associated view.</p>
<p>This is but a modest beginning... allowing people to enter new comments, openid, implementing spam avoidance measures, automated extraction of excerpts, ... the list goes on and on.  But first, I plan to put this code under version control (probably <a href='http://git.or.cz/'>git</a>), and implement a test suite.</p></div></content>
    <updated>2008-06-16T14:53:44-04:00</updated>
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    <name>Sam Ruby</name>
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