This is the blog I'm developing to use for my personal website (http://www.nicolaracco.com). It's intended to be a multilanguage blog with simple content management. It's licensed under GPL v2.0, and I'm hosting it here because I think it could be a good starting point for newbies who want to learn RoR. It's built around the model Content (and its 'brothers': Image and Attachment), used for both static and dynamic contents. Each content belongs to a category used as group and to create SEO-friendly urls. At the moment it's far to be complete. It still lacks a bit of AJAX and a Search engine. There are Tags (and a Tag Cloud feature), a Sitemap and Feed management. A content can be written using Textile, and a little hack allows to integrate RedCloth with CodeRay to provide syntax highlighting functionalities for the code written in a content. This blog is, at the moment, a work made in the last weeks. In fact I tried to accomplish this work using my free time and I couldn't find a bit of time to write test classes, and I think I'll regret in future :).

##Last Changes

I removed my own commenting system in favor of IntenseDebate

#Requirements

• Ruby 1.9
• Rails 3.0.0.beta3
• Mysql

#To install

##Fetch a copy git clone git://github.com/nicolaracco/nrblog.git ./nrblog cd nrblog git submodule init # => These two commands download for you the latest JQuery-UJS version available git submodule update

##Plugins and libraries You need to have installed only the bundler gem. If you don't have it: gem install bundler Then, update your bundle: bundle install

##Configuration

Admin user: Copy 'dist/seeds.rb' to 'db/seeds.rb' and edit it to change the author fields. So, for example, the line: Author.create(:username => 'admin', :email => 'admin@mysite.com', :password => 'adminPass').save will become: Author.create(:username => 'Nicola', :email => 'nicola@nicolaracco.com', :password => 'myPassword').save

Devise: Copy 'dist/devise.rb' to 'config/initializers/devise.rb' and edit it to fit your needs

Database: Create 'config/database.yml' and set it properly

Mail Setup: Copy 'dist/mail_setup.rb' to 'config/initializers/mail_setup.rb' and edit it to set how ActionMailer should send emails

Intense Debate: Copy 'dist/intense_debate.rb' to 'config/initializers/intense_debate.rb' end edit it filling your IntenseDebate IDs.

Finally, setup the environment with: bundle install rake db:setup

#Paths to know

Sitemap: ~/(:locale)/sitemap.xml Feeds: ~/(:locale)/feed.xml (Home Feed), ~/(:locale)/tags/:tag/feed.xml (Tag Feed), ~/(:locale)/content/:category/feed.xml (Category Feed) Contact Form: ~/(:locale)/contact/:author Login Form: ~/authors/login