Rog - Static Blog Engine

Rog is a very simple ruby blog application.

Rog is a static blog engine that generate a group of html pages from text files formatted in variuos markup languages (and from some ruby source files :-P). Features

Rog features are:

• rog don’t have too many features :-)
• simple code
• reusing of all rote features
• post tagging
• auto-generation of tag and month archives
• auto-generation generation of links and static pages menu
• no server side requirements (apart web server :-)
• rake integration for blog maintenance tasks

Requirements

Rog depends on:

• ruby >= 1.8.2 (i use 1.8.2 so i don’t know if it works with previous versions)
• rake 0.7.1
• rote 0.3.2.2

Installation

You can install rog very easily with rubygems:

gem install rog -r

Getting started

1. rog create a_blog
2. cd a_blog
3. rake create_post : to create a post
4. rake create_tag_archive : to create a tag archive
5. rake create_month_archive : to create a month archive
6. rake : to clean and regenerate all blog pages
7. rake publish : to upload it with rsync

TODO

1. add real dependence between pages and archives;
2. add dependece between pages and blog configuration file.

Contact Me

Do you like rog? wonderful :-) why you don’t email me your comments?

I write in really spaghetti english so send me some bug report about this too :-P