Menki - A blogging base for the discerning developer

http://menkiblog.com

Inspired by its fashionable cousin Enki, Menki is a base to build your own blog upon.

No configuring, funky template languages, needing to monkey patch your additions with plugins or any of that non-sense. Simply branch, customise and when Menki gets updated you can rebase your branch. Menki is lean and mean to help make upgrades as painless as possible. Use of a decent SCM is highly recommended.

What Menki's got:

• Merb
• Datamapper for the model
• OpenID for the admin (multiple logins)
• HAML for the pretty bits (HAML == less code == cleaner merging)
• ATOM
• /posts/post-title URLs
• Choice of post format: HAML, Markdown, Textile or straight HTML
• Basic admin live preview and draft auto-saving

What Menki features are planned to be added soon:

• μFormats
• Comments
• Sexytime Admin

What you won't find under Menki's skirt:

• A pre-baked stylesheet
• Pages - you can add easily add these yourself

Get up and running

Step 1: Grab Menki

git clone git@github.com:toolmantim/menki.git
cd menki
mate config/database.yml
rake dm:db:automigrate
merb

Step 2: Customise

• Edit config/menki.yml
• Edit the views adding your own stylesheets etc
• Hit http://127.0.0.1:4000/
• Add a post via http://127.0.0.1:4000/admin

Step 3

• Profit

Currently Powering

Nothing yet.

Support

http://groups.google.com/group/menki

Contributing

Bugfixes are always welcome, new features too if they're fitting with the Menki vibe. The mailing list is the best place for discussions, a git repo somewhere I can pull from is the best place for patches. Github's fun because we get to look at pretty pictures and things: http://github.com/toolmantim/menki/network

Contributors

• Tim Lucas
• You?