The term maeku is used to describe elements of the Japanese collaborative poetry genre renga. Specifically, maeku refers to a verse where unlikely words are strung together to evoke a new or surprising image.

Maeku is a Ruby on Rails-based journalling platform. Eventually, it will support multiple users and be extensible with multiple post types. It's inspired by Tumblr, Hi.co (defunct), Japanese poetry, and the idea of controlling your own blog content on the web.

Maeku is not in a usable state.

You can clone this repository and use the included dummy Rails application for local Maeku development.

The recommended setup path is as follows:

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/maeku/maeku maeku
   

2. Install dependencies with bundler:

   cd maeku
   bundle install
   

3. Migrate and seed the dummy database using the provided dummy:setup Rake task:

   bundle exec rake dummy:setup
   

4. And start the dummy application's Rails server using the dummy:server Rake task:

   bundle exec rake dummy:server
   

If you want to develop on the maeku_editor gem locally, you also need to run a local Webpack developer server. If you install Yarn, it's easy to get dependencies installed and run the webpack-dev-server in the background:

cd editor
yarn install
yarn webpack-dev-server