http://www.ompty.org/omposter/ David Shakaryan's weblog. http://www.ompty.org/omposter/1198747518-omposter.html Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:25:18 GMT omposter ruby I occasionally have something that I would like to publish and have propagate to various feed aggregators. However, my inability to find decent weblog software that satisfies my minimalist preferences usually leads to a complete halt in updates after an initial burst of articles. Instead of once again following this pattern, I decided to write my own script, allowing everything to be exactly as I prefer. This is where omposter comes in! Credit for the awesome name goes to <a href="http://abhishek.geek.nz/">arbscht</a>.<br /> <br /> Omposter is an extremely simple weblog application powered by Ruby and YAML. Each article is stored as a manually-created YAML file containing information such as the title and contents. A small Ruby script generates HTML pages and RSS feeds from these files, resulting in a collection of static files that can be uploaded to a web server. Although I only started coding omposter on Christmas day, I had a rather complete script by that night. The only area still in need of substantial improvement is the category feature. As for the layout, I put together a small CSS stylesheet loosely based on the one I made for the <a href="http://dev.gentoo.org/~omp/omptagger/">omptagger website</a>.<br />