#Erlenmeyer
Homepage : Erlenmeyer
This is Erlenmeyer, a simple blogging platform written in Python using Flask, because, let's face it, the world needed another blogging platform. Like all blogging tools, Erlenmeyer is incomplete, unfinished, and will probably wind up being abandoned by the author as soon as you get it working.
Because apathy and abandonment is the fate of all web tools (especially blogging tools), Erlenmeyer is designed to be the 1963 VW Bug of blogging software. It is not intended to be elegant. It is not intended to be fast. It is not intended to "scale," whatever that means. It is not intended to be extendable. Instead, Erlenmeyer is intended to be simple enough for you to modify, improve, optimize, extend and hack yourself, even if you are not much of a web programmer. Because, like the author, you just want to write things and stick them on the internet, and you don't want your life to include words like, "deploy" and "migrate."
That said, it isn't really intended to be minimalist either. Erlenmeyer is designed to actually work. It is a People's Blogging Tool, designed to provide many long years of use. The driver should be able to keep it running herself with just a few basic tools and a calm, responsible attitude. One shouldn't need to be a genius or a professional to keep a blog running.
Erlenmeyer depends on a relatively recent builds of some of its dependencies, some of which may not be packaged for your lpatform yet. Once you've cloned the repository, you should install Erlenmeyer's submodules :
$ git clone https://github.com/ryneches/Erlenmeyer.git
$ git submodule status
-da2879a83572ab56633c44466f1439f64edf93f5 libs/bootstrap-markdown
-570aa8a30936a122abb37b78d48e85c6c67157db libs/bootstrap3
-13d58a9bec67356ecae0d6902cb634e52cebcf19 libs/jquery
-503cb54167820fbdd811d6367cf8eca24108e017 libs/markdown-js
-04cd95d3426c7665fc88a1774709e7b68fe226d7 libs/pyandoc
$ git submodule init
Submodule 'libs/bootstrap-markdown'
(https://github.com/toopay/bootstrap-markdown.git)
registered for path 'libs/bootstrap-markdown'
Submodule 'libs/bootstrap3'
(https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git)
registered for path 'libs/bootstrap3'
Submodule 'libs/jquery'
(https://github.com/jquery/jquery.git)
registered for path 'libs/jquery'
Submodule 'libs/markdown-js'
(https://github.com/evilstreak/markdown-js.git)
registered for path 'libs/markdown-js'
Submodule 'libs/pyandoc'
(https://github.com/kennethreitz/pyandoc.git)
registered for path 'libs/pyandoc'
$ git submodule update
You'll also need to install pandoc. If you're on a Linux machine, this is pretty easy.
$ sudo apt-get install pandoc # Debian/Ubuntu
If you're on a Mac, I suggest getting Homebrew installed. You may want to follow these excellent instructions for getting a useable scientific python development environment onto your Mac using Homebrew, virtualenv and pip (seriously, follow the guide). Once you've done that, you can obtain pandoc by doing something like this :
$ brew install haskell-platform
$ cabal update
$ cabal install pandoc
After installing the dependencies, you should be able to launch Erlenmeyer in two easy steps :
$ ./init.sh
$ ./erlenmeyer.py
Then point your browser at http://localhost:5000.
When you're ready to deploy, you probably shouldn't use the development server. I suggest the uwsgi application server and nginx for your web server. There are various guides for doing this.
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