Jubilee now released written by: Lee Richmond posted on: 04 February 2010
Hey all,
well it's finally here, what started out as an application purely for my own use, I've finally got it to a stage where I am happy to release it for general release so here she is, http://github.com/lrichmond/jubilee.
Sadly I am one of those developers who gives all their applications a working title based on a comic book character, but Jubilee is designed to be a simple blogging application in which the developer can either use it as it stands to start their own blog, or they can take it and use the application as a starting block to build something bigger.
Jubilee has a fully WYSIWYG editor courtesy of the wysihat-engine gem for writing your articles and creating the different categories within your blog, comment moderation to help avoid all those spammy comments you may encounter, and a basic configuration section where you can set things like the title of your blog, some basic meta data, as well as the default email address that will be used for your contact form and to notify you when a comment that requires moderation. All this is contained within a simple administration section.
Jubilee is far from complete but I felt it was at a stage where any Ruby on Rails developer whether a beginner or and advanced Ruby guru would be able to pick it up and use it.
Jubilee is currently in use for the blog you are reading now, and I would be interested to hear from anyone who does try it out I am always open to the thoughts and comments of others, so what are you waiting for? give it a try.
Gems used:
http://www.gemcutter.org/gems/wysihat-engine
http://www.gemcutter.org/gems/less
http://www.gemcutter.org/gems/gravatar_image_tag
Plugins used:
http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication
http://github.com/technoweenie/permalink_fu
