Mandarina Blog Engine

This blog engine is written with the Ruby on Rails framework and is a test lab for my ruby learning. It has some basic features. It has been designed to fit to my blog's needs http://feelfree.homelinux.com.

Installation:

gem used: Rails 1.2, rmagick, redcloth, htmlentities, xml-simple, gruff (all included except rmagick).

1. download mandarina at http://code.google.com/p/mandarinablog (svn checkout)
2. unpack the files
3. create your databases, create and tune the file database.yml to match your installation
4. run rake migrate
5. browse your blog url and create the original user

List of plugins:

• ArchivesPlugin
• AnalyticsPlugin
• CategorylistPlugin
• PagelistPlugin
• SearchPlugin
• LinklistPlugin
• QuicklinksPlugin
• LangswitchPlugin
• AmarokPlugin
• CatgraphPlugin
• WeatherPlugin
• FlickrPlugin
• GalleryPlugin
• ThemeswitchPlugin
• DeliciouscloudPlugin
• HcardPlugin

Features:

• simple installation
• live post preview
• multiple themes
• easy plugins management
• comment spam protection with logical captcha
• works with rails 1.2 since svn version 70
• Textile_editor plugin & and Textile syntax
• Caching for main page, catgraph, flickr, gallery & deliciouscould plugins.
• Change & edit user account
• Haml for views design
• Sitealizer plugin for visiting statistics
• xmlrpc access via metaweblog API http://www.yourblog.com/backend/xmlrpc

TODO:

• Finish metaweblog API adaptation
• implement microformat hcard, hcalendar & XFN